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Example sentences for "twenties"

Lexicographically close words:
twelves; twen; twene; twenti; twentie; twentieth; twentieths; twentith; twenty; twentye
  1. Now, British cannon, pour your fires, and lay your dead in tens and twenties on the rock.

  2. Busyday's five twenties and droning out, "Six hundred to $100 on Imp to win.

  3. Like other Banias they are divided into the Bisa and Dasa groups or twenties and tens, the Dasa being of irregular descent.

  4. Like other Bania groups the Nemas are divided into Bisa and Dasa subdivisions or twenties and tens, the Bisa being of pure and the Dasa of irregular descent.

  5. You'd have to go back to the roaring twenties to find so many creative screw-jobs.

  6. There were plenty of jeans and frazzled sneakers among the forty or so young researchers, most of them in their late twenties or early thirties.

  7. It is therefore not surprising that although the great novels of the world have been written for the most part by men over forty years of age, the great short-stories have been written by men in their twenties and their thirties.

  8. What she had felt for this man in her early twenties seemed a mere partnership of romance and sentiment fused by young nerves, compared with the mature passion he had shocked from its long recuperative sleep.

  9. It wasn't exactly hardship, for nothing is really hardship to lovers in their twenties but separation.

  10. So much stress is laid upon the language of the five-twenties that I cannot let it pass.

  11. As for the girl, she was in that unsettled mind in which young women in their first twenties often find themselves when sensing by an instinct new to them the coming of a grown-up man with real matrimonial intentions.

  12. The men are nearly all veterans of the late war, for the most part bearded youngsters in their twenties or early thirties.

  13. Now an affair of the heart when a man is in his twenties and a girl is just passing out of her teens, is never static; it is dynamic and always there is something doing.

  14. The population of Harvey for the most part those first years was in its twenties also, when gilding is cheap.

  15. But thank Heaven the gilding of our twenties is lasting.

  16. Naturally a young man of his conspicuous talents in his exceedingly early twenties who has the vast misfortune to have a lamp of Aladdin to rub, asks genii first of all for girls and girls and more girls.

  17. They were seated in a tropical grove at one end of the room whither they had retired at the beginning of the cotillion, which they surrendered entirely to the twenties and the late 'teens.

  18. The holidays belong to the early twenties and the 'teens, home from school and college.

  19. Bordeu came to Paris as a brilliant provincial in his early twenties and by the charm of his manner and daring therapy fought his way to the most exclusive aristocratic practice of the court.

  20. There can be no doubt that Darwin had an abnormal fatigability, a lack of stamina and endurance in mental as well as physical application which plagued him from the late twenties to the sixties.

  21. What the sentiment was that prevailed in the North during the twenties and thirties of the present century is evidenced in certain laws enacted by the legislatures of some of the states in line with the Federal Slave Law of 1793.

  22. In Vermont, which seems to have received fugitives from the Troy line of eastern New York, the period of activity began "in the latter part of the twenties of this century, and lasted till the time of the Rebellion.

  23. It is therefore not surprising that, although the great novels of the world have been written for the most part by men over forty years of age, the great short-stories have been written by men in their twenties and their thirties.

  24. In the early twenties the Nation failed to maintain outlets for the new productive capacity of our agricultural plant.

  25. Of course it is assumed that the amount proposed of Ten-Twenties at five per cent.

  26. Fifteen-Twenties nor in the Twenty-Five-Thirties proposed by the Secretary.

  27. The term Ten-Twenties seems also accidental, as it is unquestionably new.

  28. The bill now before the Senate contemplates the prompt extinguishment of the Five-Twenties of 1862.

  29. Five-Twenties of 1862, amounting to upward of five hundred millions, in five per cent.

  30. Two of the twenties and one ten, were printed in the early twenties.

  31. Fisheye is saying spells over his bankroll and is kissing some of the tens and twenties a fond and reluctant farewell.

  32. And there we took six of their ships and they slew of our men about four twenties and hurt a two hundred of us right sore; and there were slain on their part about twelve twenties and hurt a five hundred of them.

  33. They surrendered in twenties to the oncoming tanks and rapidly advancing lines of infantry.

  34. He changed the conversation to the war, to the France about which I, a very elderly Captain--have I not confessed to early twenties thirty years before?

  35. And her twenties won't last for ever--to put it mildly.

  36. He owes his success with the public of the twenties and his place in the history of art entirely to the fact that in spite of his strict classical training he was one of the first to interest himself, however little, in contemporary life.

  37. Even in the twenties there was an art in Munich which was native to the soil, and in later years shot up all the more vigorously through being for a time cramped in its development by the exotic growths of the school of Cornelius.

  38. But as early as the twenties this spirit had revealed itself to the French.

  39. The pictures of brigand life which he painted in the beginning of the twenties soon found a most profitable market.

  40. Even in the twenties Koch's classical heroic landscapes, executed with an ideal sweep of line, were contrasted with castle chapels, ruins, and cloister courts composed in a similarly arbitrary manner.

  41. When he appeared in the twenties his pictures were thought bizarre and melancholy.

  42. Their forces rush at each other: there fall three twenties of them in each of the forces.

  43. I swear by God,' said Lugaid, 'one man nor two dare not go out of the camp, unless it be in twenties or thirties.

  44. And eight twenties of women, that was their share of the spoil.

  45. Conchobar and Celtchar went with three fifties of chariots, and they brought eight twenties of heads from Ath Airthir Midi; hence is Ath Fene.

  46. Chief Ishikola of Su'u had offered five twenties of drinking coconuts for her, and Bau, a bush chief, had offered two chickens on the beach at Malu.

  47. Promoters received their tens and twenties of thousands.

  48. He presents ‘the bit o’ writin’’ ‘Two twenties and ten in gold.

  49. From the twenties or thirties {70a} till the sixties it had some spacious grounds in the rear, entered from an archway beside the tavern.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twenties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.