How to Use twenty-two in a Sentence

twenty-two

noun

• In Nuremberg, in the fall of 1945, twenty-two high-ranking Nazis were put on trial before a group of judges from Allied nations.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Last year, only fifteen per cent of eighth graders met state standards in math, and fewer than twenty-two per cent in reading.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
• Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies.
  — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
• For example, one study, in Oklahoma, found birds in the stomachs of two of twenty-two cats roaming freely in a residential area.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• By 1990, the point at which hip-hop had fully emerged as a cultural force across the nation—the pinnacle of what became known as its golden era—New York City had reached a record number of homicides: more than twenty-two hundred that year alone.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• In another company trial, college students who used the app reported a twenty-two-per-cent reduction in depressive symptoms in the course of a few weeks.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• In Georgia, Black murder defendants whose victims were white were almost twenty-two times as likely to be sentenced to death as those who killed other Blacks, and more than seven times as likely as whites whose victims were Black.
  — Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
• Inoue is now twenty-five and oh, with twenty-two knockouts, having won championships in four different divisions.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
• At least twenty-two campus security officers and N.Y.P.D. cops watched, from behind metal police barriers.
  — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Sep 2024