How to Use twentysomething in a Sentence

twentysomething

adjective
  • Leonard and Phil Chess, who ran the company, didn’t quite know what to do with the twentysomething Guy.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Among many other ideas for the rewrites, Zendaya had pitched an idea in which Rue, who is now sober as a twentysomething young woman, would be a pregnancy surrogate.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The film opens with its shy, sensitive twentysomething protagonist, Bear, struggling to confess his feelings for his childhood friend, Nikki.
    — Alex Barasch, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
  • Set five years after the events of Season 2, the characters of Sam Levinson's HBO teen drama now have an older, twentysomething look.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Cannon is a twentysomething Chinese Canadian in Montreal, decidedly not of that city’s white Francophone class.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Her discography, which dates back to 2011, is crammed with unfrilly, relatable details that smack of being broke and twentysomething, like looking for a place to pee, or admitting her preferred coffee brand is still Chock full o’Nuts.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The end result of their work is a rallying cry for filmmakers pushing against calcified thinking and conventional wisdom — and unsurprisingly, Pellington says that working on the documentary put him back in touch with the fearless twentysomething maverick inside of him.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Watch Schitt's Creek on Hulu Broad City Broad City creators Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer take on New York City on their web series–turned–Comedy Central hit, playing twentysomething versions of themselves navigating life in the Big Apple on a small budget.
    — James Mercadante, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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