variants
or .22
as in musket
Related Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of twenty-two
In 2022, while reviewing videos of twenty-two wild chimpanzees in Guinea, Rodrigues found very few instances when chimps ended a social interaction with a behavior that could be considered leave-taking.
—
Shayla Love, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
But the disaster on the mind of the twenty-two-year-old author is larger than a barroom brawl.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
The treatise is organized as seven sections, each corresponding to a different set of games, and includes a number of optional variations, outlining twenty-two different games in total.
—JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
Three separate small apartments were created within the big house for the children, Christopher, Elizabeth, and Leslie, then twenty-two, twenty, and sixteen.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for twenty-two
Shayla Love, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
But the disaster on the mind of the twenty-two-year-old author is larger than a barroom brawl.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
The treatise is organized as seven sections, each corresponding to a different set of games, and includes a number of optional variations, outlining twenty-two different games in total.
—JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
Three separate small apartments were created within the big house for the children, Christopher, Elizabeth, and Leslie, then twenty-two, twenty, and sixteen.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for twenty-two
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
-
His 134 men were armed with musket, cartridge pouch, and sword in case of a hostile encounter, and the Africaansche Galey lay close by with a couple of small cannon brought forward on the bow.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
-
The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
-
Her image as an onstage bad girl was weaponized against her, with fans threatening her life at concerts, leaving at one point shotgun shells on the stage during Hole performances, referring to the manner of Cobain’s death.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2026
-
More than a month after the murders, Kohberger took a cross-country drive home to Pennsylvania with his dad riding shotgun in the suspect vehicle.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
-
Smoke billowed from his flintlock and Rhoades didn’t see where the buck ran after the shot.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
28 Jan. 2026
-
The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
Noun
-
With feverish speed and characteristic blunderbuss, President Donald Trump has given the federal government – and himself – unprecedented control over private economic decisions.—
Matthew Mitchell,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
-
Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
-
First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
Noun
-
Researchers recently found medieval cannonballs from culverins, an early form of cannon, that were most likely used by Vlad the Impaler, during his bloody battle in 1461 with the Ottoman Turks.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
5 Aug. 2019
Noun
-
Then seventy, Kluge and his third wife, Patricia, had moved to a forty-five-room Georgian estate Kluge built for her in rural Virginia.—
Gabriel Sherman,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
-
The actor and filmmaker died in September at his home near the Sundance Mountain Resort, a forty-five-minute drive from Park City.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Twenty-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty-two. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
