How to Use twenty-one in a Sentence
twenty-one
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All of us were white, and all of us in our thirties or forties except for Gavin, who was twenty-one.
—Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
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The film was so controversial that it was banned in over four dozen countries and spawned a series of sequels over the course of twenty-one years.
—Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding has brought audiences joy for twenty-one years.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
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The actor and producer Nicole Stéphane spent twenty-one years trying to find a director to take him on.
—Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
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Inkjet print on white plexiglass; seven-and-a-half inches by twenty-one feet.
—Kerry James Marshall, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
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Clans often use members who are under twenty-one to commit more overt crimes so that they will be tried in more lenient youth courts.
—Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
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Plymouth Church, on Orange Street, was founded in 1847 with just twenty-one members.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
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At twenty-one, Marshall quit college to work at Chess, as his father’s heir apparent.
—John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
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Oh’s center raised twenty-one million dollars for its launch, which her hospital matched.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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An obstetrician, for example, can be sued for birth trauma until a child is twenty-one years old.
—Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
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Souths, as the Rabbitohs are often referred to, are perhaps the competition’s most historic team with twenty-one titles.
—Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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But inflation has come down even as the unemployment rate has stayed below four per cent for twenty-one months, a spell of low joblessness that hasn’t been matched since the nineteen-sixties.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
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When Akbar was twenty-one, he was installed as its general manager.
—Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
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And, the hotel has expanded underground, extending one-hundred and twenty-one feet deep below ground.
—Allyson Portee, Forbes, 2 May 2023
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In 2021, according to data obtained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than one per cent of abortions occurred at or after twenty-one weeks.
—Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
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In the spring of 2014, after Melanie, who was twenty-one, stopped visiting or responding to text messages, Melissa, who was eighteen, and her mother went to the police in Farmington to report her missing.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
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In July, the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that youth unemployment had hit a record high of twenty-one per cent, nearly twice the rate four years earlier.
—Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
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Even with this limited repertoire, your new backup chef can prepare dinner one night every week, with twenty-one days between repeat dishes.
—Kyle Austin Young, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
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The draft contract included starting pay of twenty-one dollars an hour for part-timers hired after August 1st (up from around sixteen dollars) and raises for current part-timers based on seniority.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
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Among the chief beneficiaries of democracy’s preservation would be Arab Israelis, who make up twenty-one per cent of the population, who do not have to serve in the military, and whose vote Likud has sought to suppress in various ways.
—Bernard Avishai, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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And, at the request of the attorney general’s office, the same judge who had authorized the arrest warrants days earlier now rescinded twenty-one of them, including the ones for the state attorney general and the judge in Chilpancingo.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
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Hundreds of thousands have died, more than four million people have been displaced, and twenty-one million are dependent on humanitarian aid to survive.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
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In a study examining the physiological implications of the stress contagion effect, researchers created a set of twenty-one videos that involved participants speaking while under minimal stress, high stress, and while recovering from stress.
—Donna Sarkar, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
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