How to Use thirty-eight in a Sentence

thirty-eight

noun

• This act of self-harm took just thirty-eight days.
  — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2026
• At thirty-eight, her womb was unfurling its first bloody fruit.
  — ‘pemi Aguda, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
• That dress, which cost thirty-eight ninety-nine, still hung limply in the store, twinkling.
  — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
• Bondi won the primary with nearly thirty-eight per cent of the vote.
  — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
• Thirty-two knockouts in thirty-eight wins is not a record built on decisions.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• The flyer circled the meadow for thirty-eight minutes and three seconds.
  — Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
• It has been translated into thirty-eight languages.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
• Malak, thirty-eight, was her father’s right hand, helping manage his businesses.
  — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
• Most smokejumpers start out earning about twenty-five dollars an hour, or thirty-eight dollars an hour for overtime.
  — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
• Harriet was thirty-eight when her mother was released, in 2019.
  — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
• And for this he was assassinated, at the age of thirty-eight, in Africa in 1896.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026
• Rodgers, who is thirty-eight, scanned the menu through tortoiseshell glasses before settling on avocado toast.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• The melter sits over a sewer line, idling while heating the snow to thirty-eight degrees, barely above freezing, and drips the water directly into a drain.
  — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
• About two years and thirty-eight million dollars later, Musk took his remaining nine hundred and sixty-odd million dollars and went home.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
• The idea that anyone not afflicted by a death wish might initiate a high-speed accident with a thirty-eight-ton tractor-trailer seemed ludicrous.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
• Four days later, CBS News obtained a list of two hundred and thirty-eight men sent to El Salvador.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Shortly before noon, after thirty-eight hours of deliberation, the jury returned a final message.
  — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
• Maguire had created, as the author himself described it, a dense, almost nineteenth-century-type novel that takes place over thirty-eight years and has thirty-eight speaking parts.
  — CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
• According to an analysis by the Washington Post, these outlays have over the years amounted to thirty-eight billion dollars.
  — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• John Wilson, the thirty-eight-year-old filmmaker, was drinking iced coffee on his home turf of Ridgewood, Queens, one recent morning.
  — Madeleine Wulfahrt, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• Many adventures later, Portillo sold his business to private equity, his chain of thirty-eight restaurants and two commissaries valued at a cool billion.
  — John Lanchester, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
• Zeraati, who is thirty-eight, had arrived in England in 2007 to study mechanical engineering.
  — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
• Also, the PunchMax Protein PowerBowl has only one thousand, one hundred and thirty-eight calories.
  — Felipe Torres Medina, New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2025
• But in thirty-eight years there has only ever been one SPACEBALLS.
  — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2025
• On July 21st, a thirty-eight-year-old construction worker named Hector González was crushed to death by falling building materials.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
• In 1990, Beckert notes, almost thirty-eight per cent of the world’s population lived on less than about two dollars per day; in 2022, only nine per cent did.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
• Judy was found guilty of murder in 1983, and served thirty-eight years, mostly in Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
  — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
• The Administration has used the money, in part, to begin to create a network of bigger facilities, investing thirty-eight billion dollars to buy up large warehouses across the country and retrofit them.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
• On August 7th of that year, Barisone took a pink-and-black-camouflage handgun from a safe and went to a house on his property being occupied by a thirty-eight-year-old woman named Lauren Kanarek.
  — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026
• In the spring of 2018, Sotheby’s lost money on a thirty-six-million-dollar Picasso and barely broke even on a hundred-and-thirty-eight-million-dollar Modigliani.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025