How to Use twenty-one in a Sentence

twenty-one

noun

• 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
• Stein’s name is engraved on the stone’s front face, and Toklas, who died twenty-one years after her partner, on the back.
  — Hannah Whitaker, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
• Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• 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
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding has brought audiences joy for twenty-one years.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• 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
• Inkjet print on white plexiglass; seven-and-a-half inches by twenty-one feet.
  — Kerry James Marshall, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• 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
• Plymouth Church, on Orange Street, was founded in 1847 with just twenty-one members.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
• At twenty-one, Marshall quit college to work at Chess, as his father’s heir apparent.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• There’s plenty to be inspired by: Ledecky’s seven Olympic gold medals and twenty-one World Championship gold medals are the most ever won by a female swimmer.
  — Dawn Klavon, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
• Oh’s center raised twenty-one million dollars for its launch, which her hospital matched.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• An obstetrician, for example, can be sued for birth trauma until a child is twenty-one years old.
  — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• When Akbar was twenty-one, he was installed as its general manager.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• And, the hotel has expanded underground, extending one-hundred and twenty-one feet deep below ground.
  — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 2 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The fighting has displaced more than twelve million Syrians (out of a prewar population of roughly twenty-one million).
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In 1972, after the Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen, some twenty-five million additional Americans were enfranchised in time for the Presidential election.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024