How to Use twenty in a Sentence

twenty

noun

• Tomorrow the temperature will be in the low twenties.
• The founders were still in their twenties and were soon rich men.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
• Two were in their twenties, and the last was between 45 to 50 years old.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• So, well, from my twenties to my nineties is about 70 years.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2024
• Jim Davis/Globe Staff In all, 11 people in their twenties and thirties signed up for the class.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Those indicted ranged in age from their teens to mid-twenties; at 17, Muse was the youngest.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 14 June 2017
• Bloom was in her twenties at the time, while McKenna was two decades older.
  — Ellie Austin, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2024
• The majority of the crowd was in its twenties and thirties.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
• Bryan Shelton said the victim is a black male in his early to mid-twenties.
  — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Since my early twenties, I'’d lost and regained 30 to 40 pounds at least three times.
  — Lambeth Hochwald, Good Housekeeping, 2 Jan. 2018
• His three sons, who attended home school and Bossier Parish schools, are in their twenties.
  — Linda K. Wertheimer, The New Republic, 30 May 2023
• The bomb injured two men in their twenties, and city police have asked the bomber to reach out and reveal his demands.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2018
• But his decision to wait until his mid-twenties to tell me wasn’t about me at all.
  — Richard Carranza, Teen Vogue, 22 June 2018
• The shooting came about 20 minutes after an 18-year-old woman and a man in his twenties were shot in the head in East Harlem.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
• What is the effect when testosterone is flooding the system in your teens or twenties?
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018
• In my late twenties and early thirties, my body started to break down.
  — Seamus Mullen, Bon Appetit, 6 Feb. 2017
• But anyone hoping to plunk down $60 for an eighth of an ounce of weed might have to leave the plastic at home and bring some twenties instead.
  — Dan Adams, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2018
• All this was happening at a time that more consumers in their twenties and thirties were up for grabs.
  — New York Times, 23 Jan. 2020
• She finally was diagnosed in her twenties and has learned to live (and thrive) since.
  — Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2020
• Others are now in their late teens and twenties and have already lost most of their muscle function.
  — Jason Mast Reprints, STAT, 30 June 2023
• Many of my friends had run away from home—a couple were teen-agers, like me, and several were in their twenties but had been on their own for a decade.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 June 2019
• One of the deceased was a man in his mid-twenties, and the other a woman of unknown age, police told the Chicago Tribune.
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 8 May 2017
• Just a few hours later, two men in their twenties were walking along a street in south Austin, in a wealthy neighborhood far from the first three bombs.
  — Dan Frosch, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Four people agreed to participate — two adults in their twenties and two kids ages 11 and 13.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
• And of course, dating in my forties is a world of difference from dating in my twenties.
  — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 18 Feb. 2013
• But fast-forward to my twenties, and it's been a real joy not having to spend the time and money trying to finding the best brow growth serum.
  — Lindsay Schallon, Glamour, 11 June 2018
• These signs can show as early as your late twenties and early thirties.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
• The caller said Smith tried to strangle his girlfriend, a woman in her twenties, earlier in the day.
  — Thy Vo, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2019
• Harriman, too, would require some tender persuasion, and Pamela, now barely in her twenties, was up for the job.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• For the uninitiated, the hit show, which stars Lily Collins, chronicles the adventures of a woman in her late twenties moving from Chicago to Paris.
  — Gabrielle Pedriani, StyleCaster, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024