twenty-one
noun
twen·ty-one
ˌtwen-tē-ˈwən 
ˌtwən-
1
: a number that is one more than 20 see Table of Numbers
2
[translation of French vingt-et-un]
: blackjack sense 1
twenty-one
adjective
twenty-one
pronoun, plural in construction
Examples of twenty-one in a Sentence
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In 1972, after the Twenty-sixth Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen, some twenty-five million additional Americans were enfranchised in time for the Presidential election.
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E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 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
Overall healing or improvement rate data for thirty-one ulcers among twenty-one patients will be presented, and the presentation will also include sub-categories for ulcers that existed for more than one year and less than one year prior to the VenoValve surgery.
—Charlotte Observer, 17 June 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
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
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
Between July 2, 1935, and February 10, 1942, Holiday, backed by Teddy Wilson and his band, logged twenty-one studio sessions, yielding around seventy imperishable songs.
—Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024
Plymouth Church, on Orange Street, was founded in 1847 with just twenty-one members.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 June 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
Overall healing or improvement rate data for thirty-one ulcers among twenty-one patients will be presented, and the presentation will also include sub-categories for ulcers that existed for more than one year and less than one year prior to the VenoValve surgery.
—Charlotte Observer, 17 June 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
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
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
Between July 2, 1935, and February 10, 1942, Holiday, backed by Teddy Wilson and his band, logged twenty-one studio sessions, yielding around seventy imperishable songs.
—Nick Bowlin, Harper's Magazine, 24 Mar. 2024
Plymouth Church, on Orange Street, was founded in 1847 with just twenty-one members.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024
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“Twenty-one.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twenty-one. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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