How to Use twenty-two in a Sentence

twenty-two

noun
  • The price at the time was twenty-two hundred dollars per pound.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • One hundred and twenty-two hours since his mother left him at triage.
    — Ashley Andreou, STAT, 22 June 2026
  • Out came a twenty-two-year-old woman in shorts and Birkenstocks.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Mamdani got on the next flight out of Entebbe, but the trip took twenty-two hours.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • This child would be number twenty-two at the orphanage.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • But this hardly jibes with the timing of the move or the fact that his show had been running for twenty-two years.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Ivan is twenty-two, probably past his prodigy days where chess is concerned.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • The twenty-two-year-old drinking pink cocktails at a waterfront bar.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Darwin notes that the Weald Basin is about a thousand feet deep and twenty-two miles wide.
    — Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
  • With less than eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Knicks were losing by twenty-two points.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • But the disaster on the mind of the twenty-two-year-old author is larger than a barroom brawl.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies.
    — Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • Both men pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in exchange for twenty-two years in prison.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Saft works for a flat rate, beginning at twenty-two thousand dollars for a one-bedroom apartment.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Dhruv Khullar reports on a new gene-editing treatment and spends time with a twenty-two-year-old living with the disease.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Austin quit the game at twenty, before a brief comeback years later; Hingis retired, for the first time, at twenty-two.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Trey and Moshe were twenty-four and had a full ride to Meharry; Mack was twenty-two and driving trucks.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
  • About half—twenty-two faculty and ten staff—accepted the offer, and the school went ahead with layoffs, despite union protests.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Duren, the team’s starting center, is now one of the league’s best rim protectors and, at twenty-two, an All-Star.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Tyler Robinson, a twenty-two-year-old Utah resident, has been accused of the murder.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This past week in New York City, fifteen inches of snow fell and more than twenty-two hundred snowplows pushed it away.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
  • This doesn’t include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which make up the remaining twenty-two per cent.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Last week, twenty-five local councillors were up for reëlection, twenty-two from the Labour Party.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Last March, Barbara, now twenty-two, moved into her own apartment in Kraków, a ten-minute bike ride from her mother’s.
    — Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Dozens were rushed to the facility’s clinic, where twenty-two were eventually pronounced dead.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The deregulation push was a great success, with laws enacted in twenty-two states by 1925.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The closures left providers in twenty-two states—including the nation’s three largest cities—without a Head Start point of contact.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • Brown’s group of twenty-two men, including five Black people, sought to inspire a massive slave rebellion in the region.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Kiszko’s mother, Charlotte Kiszko, spent more than a decade campaigning for her son, who died twenty-two months after his release from prison.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026

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