How to Use twenty-one in a Sentence

twenty-one

noun

• While leaving the event, he was stabbed twenty-one times.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• The kid’s only twenty-one years old.
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2026
• Now there were twenty-one hours till the train would pull into the station.
  — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• With babies, there’s a good chance of their speaking by twenty-one.
  — Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• So Ice was out there with at least twenty, twenty-one guys, all on that one bus.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
• The loudness of the printer gets the twenty-one-year-old off the sofa.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
• My routine these days is to drop off the ten-year-old at home with the twenty-one-year-old and then return to the lab.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
• After twenty-one months in solitary, he was transferred to a standard cell.
  — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• So far, four boats have been destroyed, resulting in the deaths of twenty-one people.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
• The couple eventually had two boys, now ages twelve and twenty-one.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
• Inkjet print on white plexiglass; seven-and-a-half inches by twenty-one feet.
  — Kerry James Marshall, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Riki had worked at the nursing home for almost two and a half years, from age twenty-one to twenty-three.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
• Mickey Raphael, who joined the band at twenty-one, is now seventy-four.
  — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• By the age twenty-one, 20% of autistic youths will have had a police encounter.
  — Catherine Tan, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
• Out of the twenty-one of us, seventeen had never once been on a fire assignment.
  — River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025
• All of us were white, and all of us in our thirties or forties except for Gavin, who was twenty-one.
  — Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Oh’s center raised twenty-one million dollars for its launch, which her hospital matched.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Clans often use members who are under twenty-one to commit more overt crimes so that they will be tried in more lenient youth courts.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
• Stein’s name is engraved on the stone’s front face, and Toklas, who died twenty-one years after her partner, on the back.
  — Hannah Whitaker, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2024
• The supply is capped at twenty-one million coins, with issuance predetermined by code.
  — Becca Bratcher, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
• An obstetrician, for example, can be sued for birth trauma until a child is twenty-one years old.
  — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• The film was so controversial that it was banned in over four dozen countries and spawned a series of sequels over the course of twenty-one years.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 17 Mar. 2023
• The twenty-one-year-old is talking on the phone, and the ten-year-old is asleep on the sofa, her iPad clutched in her hands, her mouth slightly open.
  — Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding has brought audiences joy for twenty-one years.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• At twenty-one, Marshall quit college to work at Chess, as his father’s heir apparent.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• One hundred twenty-one of the 594 athletes on the American team — more than one in five — are from the state.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• When Akbar was twenty-one, he was installed as its general manager.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The actor and producer Nicole Stéphane spent twenty-one years trying to find a director to take him on.
  — Christine Smallwood, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
• Paul had been twenty-one at the time, in her final year at the Slade School of Art, using her bedroom as a studio.
  — Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
• Frankenthaler, twenty-one years old, cold-calls Clement Greenberg and invites him to an exhibition.
  — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025