TWENTY in a Sentence
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262 example sentences for TWENTY, such as:
1. The course book has twenty units.
2. She did this, twenty, thirty times.
3. It might have been twenty thousand pound.
4. I was twenty years old and ready for anything.
5. A total of twenty letters were received last month.
2. She did this, twenty, thirty times.
3. It might have been twenty thousand pound.
4. I was twenty years old and ready for anything.
5. A total of twenty letters were received last month.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TWENTY
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twenty
a. denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The Boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to go downstairs again when I saw something that made me feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years' experience.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2 "Why not here, as well as in a feather bed, twenty years hence," he muttered, as he seated himself in the shelter of a boulder.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3 That girl that I spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4 If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing, and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
5 This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.
6 Not one of them, not even the youngest, not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away, ever ceased to marvel at that.
7 But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short.
8 Only something over a hundred and twenty years the Olivers had been there.
9 She would be in and out twenty times, and finally bring them lemonade in a great jug and a plate of sandwiches.
10 "Four and twenty blackbirds, strung upon a string," she muttered.
11 He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.
12 I were one-and-twenty myseln; she were twenty nighbut.
13 He was a very light porter indeed; as light as in the days when he blinkingly defined a horse, for girl number twenty.
14 It might have been twenty thousand pound.
15 She did this, twenty, thirty times.
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure.
2 At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judgment.
3 The agent spied for East Germany for more than twenty years.
4 Most people worked an eight-hour day twenty years ago.
5 They still speak broad Scots even though they left Scotland twenty years ago.
6 One hundred and twenty people died in China's worst air disaster.
7 Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
8 I was twenty years old and ready for anything.
9 Photographs of the crime scene began to arrive within twenty minutes.
10 A total of twenty letters were received last month.
11 In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty; In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty.
12 Over twenty prisoners were crushed into a small dark cell.
13 The production of the film cost twenty million US dollars.
14 Due to unforeseen circumstances the cost of the improvements has risen by twenty per cent.
15 The course book has twenty units.