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Example sentences for "when twenty"

  • In 1861, when twenty years of age, he enlisted in the Union army and went to the front in defense of the stars and stripes.

  • In the meantime he had received thorough training in farm work under his father and when twenty-one years of age he became his father's partner in the operation of the home farm of two thousand acres.

  • Robert Kennedy started out in life on his own account when a youth of but fourteen years and in 1851, when twenty-one years of age, he crossed the plains to the Pacific coast, attracted by the opportunities of the great and growing west.

  • Lane remained a resident of Tennessee but in 1865, when twenty-four years of age, went to Missouri and established his home in Johnson county.

  • When twenty-one years of age he began farming independently and previous experience well qualified him for the work which he undertook.

  • When twenty-one years old he crossed the continent to Garfield county, Washington, and here turned his attention to farming.

  • When twenty-five years old he went to Monona county, Iowa, where he was married and where he farmed until 1883.

  • When twenty-two years of age he came to America, located in Orange County, and engaged in farming.

  • When twenty-two years of age he took up the study of medicine in the office of Dr.

  • When twenty-six years of age he went to Albany, N.

  • When twenty-one years of age Benjamin Disraeli produced "Vivian Gray.

  • When twenty-three years of age he eloped to France with the Baroness Conyers, wife of the Marquis of Carmarthen.

  • When twenty-six we find him making a bold stand for reform: he would get married and live a staid, sober, respectable life.

  • When twenty-five, he wrote a play that ran for seventy nights at Drury Lane Theater.

  • When twenty-nine, he married Catherine Glynne, sister and heir of Sir Stephen Glynne, Baronet.

  • A series of desperate contests followed along the line of the Brenner, mostly with doubtful success, but in one the marshal was defeated, when twenty-five pieces of artillery and a quantity of ammunition fell into the hands of the Tyrolese.

  • When twenty-one years of age Stephenson married Fanny Henderson, a respectable country girl living at Ballast Hill.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advance upon; certain other; good qualities; lost friend; when boiling; when every; when exposed; when first; when formed; when last; when life; when once; when only; when placed; when practicable; when suddenly; when the time comes; when they had gone; when they were come; when time; when treating; when turned; when viewed; when wanted; whence came; whenever they