How to Use thirty-two in a Sentence

thirty-two

noun

• Rani, who was thirty-two, had been preparing for motherhood for a long time.
  — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
• Griffin was a champion of Chicago for most of his thirty-two years there.
  — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• The summer before she was elected, Marin had floated the idea of a thirty-two-hour workweek.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• But this timekeeper goes to sixteen, measuring out an interminably long, thirty-two-hour day.
  — Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
• Loomer, who is thirty-two, casts herself as the President’s chief loyalty enforcer.
  — Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• Kordia, who is thirty-two, has lived in the United States since 2016.
  — Aida Alami, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
• The tournament would now take place every four years, like the World Cup proper, and include thirty-two teams rather than seven.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Still, for thirty-two years, the book was outlawed precisely for being dirty and obscene—honest, maybe, but definitely not healthy.
  — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• One hundred thirty-two scores were eligible in the category.
  — Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 16 Dec. 2025
• Then, the thirty-two surviving teams will play a single-elimination tournament.
  — Leander Schaerlaeckens, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
• Jessica, who is thirty-two and works for an online educational company, had made roasted salmon.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• At thirty-two, Greenwald joined a Stanford health-care practice made up of four women and a man in Menlo Park.
  — Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• For years, Nelson had been writing thirty-two-bar AABA songs in disguise.
  — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• Because thirty-two years ago, the Orange County Board of Supervisors was asleep at the switch.
  — John Moorlach, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
• Both reached the round of thirty-two, which had never occurred before this summer, and arguably yielded some of the best contests, proof of the levelling quality of the game worldwide.
  — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
• Thirty-one companies added new leave policies for primary caregivers, while thirty-two companies added new policies for secondary caregivers.
  — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
• One thirty-two-year-old woman experienced violence in one relationship.
  — JSTOR Daily, 13 Oct. 2025
• And, on Friday, thousands in Australia will wake and gather, before dawn, to watch the Socceroos play Egypt in the round of thirty-two.
  — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
• Its thirty-two million residents inhabit two time zones, seven cultural regions, and twenty media markets.
  — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• Marc Barnes, a thirty-two-year-old professor at the college, is the unofficial hype man of the downtown-revitalization effort.
  — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
• The store manager, a thirty-two-year-old man from Daejeon, admired Bo, who was punctual, responsible, and honest.
  — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
• In 2012, yet another bomb affixed to a car killed the thirty-two-year-old Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, along with his driver.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• Funding and staffing aren’t keeping pace with the popularity of the parks, which hit a record three hundred and thirty-two million recreational visits in 2024.
  — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• After several days at sea, Cristhian Flores, a thirty-two-year-old fisherman who was aboard the Fiorella for the first time, noticed something odd in the sky.
  — Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
• In August, 2021, thirty-two Afghans who had fled their country just before the Taliban took over arrived at the border, hoping to claim asylum.
  — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• Italy occupied Somalia for around sixty years, Eritrea for about the same, Libya for thirty-two, and Ethiopia for five, but didn’t encourage migration from those places.
  — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
• Dixon had spent thirty-two years in New York’s prisons and today works as the deputy director of Parole Prep, a nonprofit that helps people advocate for their release.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• Janet Delaney’s father, Bill, worked as a salon-to-salon salesman, peddling hair and beauty products throughout the greater Los Angeles area for thirty-two years.
  — Helen Sullivan, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
• Of the thirty-two teams that qualified for the knockout stage, nine are from Africa, more than the number of teams from Asia and South America combined, and just four fewer than Europe.
  — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 6 July 2026
• My father was a thirty-two-year-old tank commander who had crossed to occupied France shortly after D-Day, fought in the savage battle for Caen and then on through northern France.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025