How to Use twenty in a Sentence

twenty

noun
  • Tomorrow the temperature will be in the low twenties.
  • Some of them were in their twenties.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That’s what late twenties are for.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The founders were still in their twenties and were soon rich men.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2023
  • April is in her mid-twenties, her daughter ten.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 14 Nov. 2025
  • That’s not something that just sticks with you in your twenties.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Even as far as my mid-twenties, the doctor plan was still the thing.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Or even in my light the world on fire twenties (or gasp, thirties).
    — Rochelle Ratkaj, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There's the most amount of roles for the ages of 20 to late twenties.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But, when Miriam was in her twenties, her life took a turn.
    — Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The clubs mainly target young white men in their late teens and twenties.
    — Art Jipson, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
  • And for anyone who's gone from twenties to thirties and gone from no kids to kids.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Neither of us is in our twenties anymore.
    — Charlie Markbreiter, Them., 21 Oct. 2025
  • The nineteen-twenties were a boom time for Man Ray.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • These signs can show as early as your late twenties and early thirties.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The youngest are in their twenties and the oldest are in their seventies.
    — Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
  • In my late twenties and early thirties, my body started to break down.
    — Seamus Mullen, Bon Appetit, 6 Feb. 2017
  • This likely means that their first-rounders will end up falling in the mid-to-late twenties at best.
    — Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But his decision to wait until his mid-twenties to tell me wasn’t about me at all.
    — Richard Carranza, Teen Vogue, 22 June 2018
  • Friends in their twenties trying to find themselves is a timeless genre.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 30 May 2025
  • Cops are looking for a suspect in his late teens or early twenties who fled the scene on foot.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • In the source text, Shane acts like an awkward teen well into his twenties.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Mahmoudian, who was in his twenties, worked in a nearby print shop.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The rest of my twenties were a very circuitous adventure.
    — R29 Team, Refinery29, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Two were in their twenties, and the last was between 45 to 50 years old.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Yes, the twenty-first century was in its twenties.
    — Deborah Levy, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • In my twenties in Chicago building scenery.
    — Outside Online, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Bryan Shelton said the victim is a black male in his early to mid-twenties.
    — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • And that mandate involved putting lots and lots of people in their twenties on the island.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • What is the effect when testosterone is flooding the system in your teens or twenties?
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018

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