How to Use thirty-two in a Sentence

thirty-two

noun
  • Rani, who was thirty-two, had been preparing for motherhood for a long time.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Griffin was a champion of Chicago for most of his thirty-two years there.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The summer before she was elected, Marin had floated the idea of a thirty-two-hour workweek.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • But this timekeeper goes to sixteen, measuring out an interminably long, thirty-two-hour day.
    — Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Loomer, who is thirty-two, casts herself as the President’s chief loyalty enforcer.
    — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Kordia, who is thirty-two, has lived in the United States since 2016.
    — Aida Alami, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The tournament would now take place every four years, like the World Cup proper, and include thirty-two teams rather than seven.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Still, for thirty-two years, the book was outlawed precisely for being dirty and obscene—honest, maybe, but definitely not healthy.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • One hundred thirty-two scores were eligible in the category.
    — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Then, the thirty-two surviving teams will play a single-elimination tournament.
    — Leander Schaerlaeckens, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
  • Jessica, who is thirty-two and works for an online educational company, had made roasted salmon.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • At thirty-two, Greenwald joined a Stanford health-care practice made up of four women and a man in Menlo Park.
    — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • For years, Nelson had been writing thirty-two-bar AABA songs in disguise.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Because thirty-two years ago, the Orange County Board of Supervisors was asleep at the switch.
    — John Moorlach, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Thirty-one companies added new leave policies for primary caregivers, while thirty-two companies added new policies for secondary caregivers.
    — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
  • One thirty-two-year-old woman experienced violence in one relationship.
    — JSTOR Daily, 13 Oct. 2025
  • And, on Friday, thousands in Australia will wake and gather, before dawn, to watch the Socceroos play Egypt in the round of thirty-two.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • Its thirty-two million residents inhabit two time zones, seven cultural regions, and twenty media markets.
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Marc Barnes, a thirty-two-year-old professor at the college, is the unofficial hype man of the downtown-revitalization effort.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • In 2012, yet another bomb affixed to a car killed the thirty-two-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, along with his driver.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Funding and staffing aren’t keeping pace with the popularity of the parks, which hit a record three hundred and thirty-two million recreational visits in 2024.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • After several days at sea, Cristhian Flores, a thirty-two-year-old fisherman who was aboard the Fiorella for the first time, noticed something odd in the sky.
    — Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
  • In August, 2021, thirty-two Afghans who had fled their country just before the Taliban took over arrived at the border, hoping to claim asylum.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Italy occupied Somalia for around sixty years, Eritrea for about the same, Libya for thirty-two, and Ethiopia for five, but didn’t encourage migration from those places.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
  • Dixon had spent thirty-two years in New York’s prisons and today works as the deputy director of Parole Prep, a nonprofit that helps people advocate for their release.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Janet Delaney’s father, Bill, worked as a salon-to-salon salesman, peddling hair and beauty products throughout the greater Los Angeles area for thirty-two years.
    — Helen Sullivan, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
  • My father was a thirty-two-year-old tank commander who had crossed to occupied France shortly after D-Day, fought in the savage battle for Caen and then on through northern France.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The production had already booked couples for thirty of the thirty-two performances—mostly weddings, with a few vow renewals, including for the actors playing Benvolio and Pedro.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Unsurprisingly, then, Lee’s untimely death in 1973, at the age of just thirty-two, sparked a heated tussle over his legacy that would be played out publicly in international media.
    — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Several of my favorite festivals happen simultaneously, including the much-loved and long-lived Under the Radar, which this year spreads its umbrella over thirty-two productions.
    — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2026

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