Other Words from twenty

twentieth \ ˈtwen-tē-əth

, ˈtwən- \ adjective or noun

twenty adjective

twenty pronoun, plural in construction

Examples of twenty in a Sentence

Tomorrow the temperature will be in the low twenties.

Recent Examples on the Web Every decade is consequential in its own way, but the twenty-twenties will be consequential in a more or less permanent way. — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2020 The effort began on March 28th, when Yumi Hogan, who had immigrated from South Korea while in her twenties, joined her husband on a call to the Korean Ambassador. — Robert P. Baird, The New Yorker, 14 May 2020 All in their twenties, Monsta X are wearing dramatic red and black prints, some in billowy button-up shirts, and all in tight, black leather pants. — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 12 May 2020 At times, Epstein arrived with one or two female assistants who appeared to be in their twenties, something that made observers uncomfortable, witnesses told the investigators. — Michael Mcdonald, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020 She finally was diagnosed in her twenties and has learned to live (and thrive) since. — Sunset Magazine, 19 Mar. 2020 Waxenbaum says most people’s bones have finished fusing together around the start of puberty, though a few stragglers, like the collarbone, don’t fully form until our early to mid twenties. — Alex Schwartz, Popular Science, 5 Feb. 2020 Officials said the subject is a woman in her twenties who recently traveled to Italy, one of the countries hardest hit by the outbreak. — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2020 Now halfway through her twenties, Taylor Tomlinson is ready to leave her mistakes behind her. — P. Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 29 Feb. 2020 See More

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