How to Use twenty-two in a Sentence
twenty-two
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The price at the time was twenty-two hundred dollars per pound.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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One hundred and twenty-two hours since his mother left him at triage.
—Ashley Andreou, STAT, 22 June 2026
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Star was young indeed, twenty-two, putting herself through vet school.
—Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
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Out came a twenty-two-year-old woman in shorts and Birkenstocks.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
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Mamdani got on the next flight out of Entebbe, but the trip took twenty-two hours.
—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
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This child would be number twenty-two at the orphanage.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026
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But this hardly jibes with the timing of the move or the fact that his show had been running for twenty-two years.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Ivan is twenty-two, probably past his prodigy days where chess is concerned.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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The twenty-two-year-old drinking pink cocktails at a waterfront bar.
—Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
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Darwin notes that the Weald Basin is about a thousand feet deep and twenty-two miles wide.
—Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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With less than eight minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Knicks were losing by twenty-two points.
—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
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But the disaster on the mind of the twenty-two-year-old author is larger than a barroom brawl.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
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Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies.
—Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
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Both men pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in exchange for twenty-two years in prison.
—Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
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Last year, only fifteen per cent of eighth graders met state standards in math, and fewer than twenty-two per cent in reading.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
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Saft works for a flat rate, beginning at twenty-two thousand dollars for a one-bedroom apartment.
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Dhruv Khullar reports on a new gene-editing treatment and spends time with a twenty-two-year-old living with the disease.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
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Austin quit the game at twenty, before a brief comeback years later; Hingis retired, for the first time, at twenty-two.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Trey and Moshe were twenty-four and had a full ride to Meharry; Mack was twenty-two and driving trucks.
—Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
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In recent years, the jobless rate has risen for all Americans in the twenty-two to twenty-seven age group.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
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About half—twenty-two faculty and ten staff—accepted the offer, and the school went ahead with layoffs, despite union protests.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2025
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Inside was one of the cards, which bore twenty-two lines, center-formatted on fine grainy stock, his signature at the bottom.
—Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
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Duren, the team’s starting center, is now one of the league’s best rim protectors and, at twenty-two, an All-Star.
—Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
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But, this year, twenty-two properties participated—many of them twice.
—Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
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Tyler Robinson, a twenty-two-year-old Utah resident, has been accused of the murder.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
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One of them, a twenty-two-year-old named George Stana, had travelled to England weeks earlier.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026
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To date, forty-six cases of the illness have been reported, with twenty-two victims hospitalized.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 July 2026
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This past week in New York City, fifteen inches of snow fell and more than twenty-two hundred snowplows pushed it away.
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
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This doesn’t include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which make up the remaining twenty-two per cent.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
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Last week, twenty-five local councillors were up for reëlection, twenty-two from the Labour Party.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
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