How to Use twenty-one in a Sentence

twenty-one

noun
  • 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
  • With babies, there’s a good chance of their speaking by twenty-one.
    — Sloane Crosley, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, his son, twenty-one years old, was tapped by Claus von Stauffenberg to be the suicide bomber in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler.
    — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding has brought audiences joy for twenty-one years.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Inkjet print on white plexiglass; seven-and-a-half inches by twenty-one feet.
    — Kerry James Marshall, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 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
  • To date, twenty-one generations of Raventós heirs have worked this 90-hectare terroir in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Plymouth Church, on Orange Street, was founded in 1847 with just twenty-one members.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
  • At twenty-one, Marshall quit college to work at Chess, as his father’s heir apparent.
    — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Their twenty-one brick-and-mortar stores across the United States and Australia (plus e-commerce) has surpassed $100 million in revenue.
    — Jessica Ourisman, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • There’s plenty to be inspired by: Ledecky’s seven Olympic gold medals and twenty-one World Championship gold medals are the most ever won by a female swimmer.
    — Dawn Klavon, Peoplemag, 18 June 2024
  • Oh’s center raised twenty-one million dollars for its launch, which her hospital matched.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • An obstetrician, for example, can be sued for birth trauma until a child is twenty-one years old.
    — Meredith Broussard, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Souths, as the Rabbitohs are often referred to, are perhaps the competition’s most historic team with twenty-one titles.
    — Vitas Carosella, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • But inflation has come down even as the unemployment rate has stayed below four per cent for twenty-one months, a spell of low joblessness that hasn’t been matched since the nineteen-sixties.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The physical Collector's Edition arrives twenty-one months after the game was released on PC and consoles.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • When Akbar was twenty-one, he was installed as its general manager.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The kitchen can produce more than ten thousand dumplings a day; the xiao long bao, or soup dumplings, are assembled by hand and must weigh precisely twenty-one grams, with each wrapper bearing no fewer than eighteen folds.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
  • And, the hotel has expanded underground, extending one-hundred and twenty-one feet deep below ground.
    — Allyson Portee, Forbes, 2 May 2023
  • In 2021, according to data obtained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, less than one per cent of abortions occurred at or after twenty-one weeks.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In the spring of 2014, after Melanie, who was twenty-one, stopped visiting or responding to text messages, Melissa, who was eighteen, and her mother went to the police in Farmington to report her missing.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
  • In July, the National Bureau of Statistics revealed that youth unemployment had hit a record high of twenty-one per cent, nearly twice the rate four years earlier.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Even with this limited repertoire, your new backup chef can prepare dinner one night every week, with twenty-one days between repeat dishes.
    — Kyle Austin Young, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The fighting has displaced more than twelve million Syrians (out of a prewar population of roughly twenty-one million).
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • The draft contract included starting pay of twenty-one dollars an hour for part-timers hired after August 1st (up from around sixteen dollars) and raises for current part-timers based on seniority.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
  • The drama is anchored by the voting itself—the elaborate formalities with which the cardinal electors, of whom (in real life) there are a hundred and twenty-one, cast their ballots, requiring a two-thirds vote to yield a winner.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024

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