How to Use thirty in a Sentence

thirty

noun
  • He is in his thirties.
  • The temperature outside is in the high thirties.
  • Both men were in their thirties at the time.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
  • This is how dinner in your thirties ends.
    — Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • All the hunters were in their mid-thirties to mid-forties.
    — Tim Kelly, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Or even in my light the world on fire twenties (or gasp, thirties).
    — Rochelle Ratkaj, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The bride was in her mid-thirties, with bottle-blond hair and ice-white teeth.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And besides, this man was now in his early thirties.
    — Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
  • In the back half of his thirties, though, his declining speed took a toll.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 4 May 2018
  • By her late thirties, though, Greene seemed unmoored.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • And for anyone who's gone from twenties to thirties and gone from no kids to kids.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Feb. 2026
  • There are a lot of people in their thirties and forties who hold this movie very near and dear.
    — Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Leila has spent most of her thirties single, and for the most part, trying to live her best life.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • My journey to this moment began as the last year of my thirties loomed.
    — Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2024
  • And then both of our careers totally took off in our late thirties.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • His wife died of ovarian cancer last year, and his son is in his thirties.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • Thirty teams suit up every year trying to get to this point, and only two teams do.
    — Tim Reynolds, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • Judge and Cole are both in their thirties and have likely peaked as players.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Now in her thirties, Jaime and her husband have two children.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 29 July 2019
  • His approval rating in most polls has moved up from the high thirties to the low forties.
    — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 22 May 2018
  • Frannie is in her thirties, broke and disheartened by her lack of progress on all fronts.
    — Renee Valois, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
  • Finally, a man in his thirties, with head shaved, walks toward me.
    — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Vivian, who is in her thirties, wore a black baseball cap, loose sweats, and a thick fur coat twice her size.
    — Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Monteiro is in his mid-thirties, with thick black hair that’s going silver around his ears.
    — Brian Merchant, Harper's magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Like me, Rosie hovered somewhere in the thirties.
    — Nell Freudenberger, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • On the other side of the square, a woman in her thirties comes out of a grocery store with a small bag.
    — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 24 June 2024
  • The mahout was in his thirties and his whole family had worked with elephants.
    — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The men in their thirties and forties who are single are so depressing!
    — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
  • When people can only make it to their early thirties, what’s the point of having kids?
    — George Yang, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The core of Footer’s book is Bradley’s heyday in the thirties.
    — Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 13 May 2026

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