Sentence examples for hundredth from inspiring English sources
'hundredth' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the ordinal number that follows the number ninety-nine. For example: "It was his hundredth birthday."
noun
The person or thing in the hundredth position.
"Oh I wanna dance with somebody!" Whitney Houston belts from the stereo, as I lean forward, bottom out, squatting for what feels like the hundredth time.
Keeping his face straight, Denis explained: 'I had never met a priest until I joined United and this one will be the hundredth'.
The new version is officially iTunes 12 – though there have been so many tenth-, hundredth- and thousandth-decimal releases since it was first officially unveiled in January 2001 that the real revision figure is probably in the hundreds.
Other than them, the place was deserted – just another empty beauty spot where I wondered for the hundredth time that week how this pristine stretch of coast has remained so undiscovered.
The more capital there is, the lower the return should be: the millionth industrial robot adds less to production than the hundredth.
Mr Bezos spent about one-hundredth of his fortune buying the Post for $250m.
Eventually the team gave up on the main antenna and remotely reprogrammed the craft to use its smaller secondary dish, which transmitted data at one-hundredth of the speed of the main one.
His firm invests in HelioVolt, which is trying to commercialise this technology; the firm claims that it can already achieve efficiencies close to those of silicon in the laboratory but using just one-hundredth the material.
Further along, the gas is cooled in bulbous storage tanks to minus 160°C, turning it into liquid and reducing it to one-six-hundredth of its original volume, ready to be sent across the oceans aboard a new generation of supercarriers.
The discovery of a moon, Charon, in 1978, enabled astronomers to arrive at their current estimate of Pluto's mass: around one five-hundredth of Earth's.Charon's existence might be thought to be enough to qualify Pluto as a proper planet.
