How to Use thirty-eight in a Sentence

thirty-eight

noun
  • This act of self-harm took just thirty-eight days.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At thirty-eight, her womb was unfurling its first bloody fruit.
    — ‘pemi Aguda, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • That dress, which cost thirty-eight ninety-nine, still hung limply in the store, twinkling.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Bondi won the primary with nearly thirty-eight per cent of the vote.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The flyer circled the meadow for thirty-eight minutes and three seconds.
    — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
  • It has been translated into thirty-eight languages.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Malak, thirty-eight, was her father’s right hand, helping manage his businesses.
    — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • Harriet was thirty-eight when her mother was released, in 2019.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Harriet was thirty-eight when her mother was released, in 2019.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • And for this he was assassinated, at the age of thirty-eight, in Africa in 1896.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Rodgers, who is thirty-eight, scanned the menu through tortoiseshell glasses before settling on avocado toast.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • The melter sits over a sewer line, idling while heating the snow to thirty-eight degrees, barely above freezing, and drips the water directly into a drain.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
  • About two years and thirty-eight million dollars later, Musk took his remaining nine hundred and sixty-odd million dollars and went home.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
  • The idea that anyone not afflicted by a death wish might initiate a high-speed accident with a thirty-eight-ton tractor-trailer seemed ludicrous.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Four days later, CBS News obtained a list of two hundred and thirty-eight men sent to El Salvador.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Maguire had created, as the author himself described it, a dense, almost nineteenth-century-type novel that takes place over thirty-eight years and has thirty-eight speaking parts.
    — CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
  • According to an analysis by the Washington Post, these outlays have over the years amounted to thirty-eight billion dollars.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • John Wilson, the thirty-eight-year-old filmmaker, was drinking iced coffee on his home turf of Ridgewood, Queens, one recent morning.
    — Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Also, the PunchMax Protein PowerBowl has only one thousand, one hundred and thirty-eight calories.
    — Felipe Torres Medina, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2025
  • But in thirty-eight years there has only ever been one SPACEBALLS.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2025
  • In 1990, Beckert notes, almost thirty-eight per cent of the world’s population lived on less than about two dollars per day; in 2022, only nine per cent did.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Judy was found guilty of murder in 1983, and served thirty-eight years, mostly in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Judy was found guilty of murder in 1983, and served thirty-eight years, mostly in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • The Administration has used the money, in part, to begin to create a network of bigger facilities, investing thirty-eight billion dollars to buy up large warehouses across the country and retrofit them.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • In the spring of 2018, Sotheby’s lost money on a thirty-six-million-dollar Picasso and barely broke even on a hundred-and-thirty-eight-million-dollar Modigliani.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Initial journalistic reports put the number of Venezuelan men deported at two hundred and thirty-eight, but advocates added names as more Venezuelans came forward saying that their family members had disappeared.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Our Streets, an exhibit that featured the photography of more than thirty-eight photojournalists, including that of September 11 victim Bill Biggart.
    — Lashawn Harris august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The investigation of the 1920 Wall Street bombing, in which thirty-eight people were killed, ranged from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the Piedmont region of Italy.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In 2024, only thirty-eight people were sentenced for federal mortgage fraud, four more than in the previous year, according to statistics compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Megan Reed, a smiley thirty-eight-year-old public-affairs manager for Bell, told me that the MV-75 was slated to replace the oldfangled Black Hawk, which entered service in 1979.
    — Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

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