How to Use thirty in a Sentence

thirty

noun

• He is in his thirties.
• The temperature outside is in the high thirties.
• In the back half of his thirties, though, his declining speed took a toll.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 4 May 2018
• On the other side of the square, a woman in her thirties comes out of a grocery store with a small bag.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 24 June 2024
• Jim Davis/Globe Staff In all, 11 people in their twenties and thirties signed up for the class.
  — Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• There are a lot of people in their thirties and forties who hold this movie very near and dear.
  — Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 Dec. 2017
• By the 2000s, over half of the black men in Milwaukee County in their thirties had state prison records.
  — Caleb Gayle, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2019
• His approval rating in most polls has moved up from the high thirties to the low forties.
  — Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 22 May 2018
• Theodor Kramer was a poet in Vienna in the thirties, a Jew.
  — Lore Segal, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
• The majority of the crowd was in its twenties and thirties.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
• My journey to this moment began as the last year of my thirties loomed.
  — Sophie Morgan, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2024
• He is stunted enough to still be hung up on his first love in his thirties—and yet too shy to own up to his feelings.
  — Hazlitt, 15 May 2024
• At the press conference, Harding said the victims' ages range from 19 to 43, but most of them are in their thirties.
  — Stephanie Warsmith, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
• Now in her thirties, Jaime and her husband have two children.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 29 July 2019
• At the time of the murders, Lane was in his early thirties and just getting his acting career off the ground.
  — Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 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
• The sicko, who cops say has curly hair and is believed to be in his thirties, was last seen wearing a light-colored shirt and shorts.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
• O’Loughlin, then in his mid-thirties, with a strong jaw and a slightly crooked smile, started chatting her up.
  — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
• Frannie is in her thirties, broke and disheartened by her lack of progress on all fronts.
  — Renee Valois, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
• Thirty teams suit up every year trying to get to this point, and only two teams do.
  — Tim Reynolds, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• His wife died of ovarian cancer last year, and his son is in his thirties.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Next to him is a scruffy man in his thirties who has the chemical structure of dopamine tattooed on his left arm.
  — Bruce Schoenfeld, WIRED, 30 May 2018
• Now that three-quarters of them are in their thirties, there are distractions at home: wives, kids, rent.
  — Eve Barlow, GQ, 7 May 2018
• And then both of our careers totally took off in our late thirties.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• The mahout was in his thirties and his whole family had worked with elephants.
  — National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
• The men in their thirties and forties who are single are so depressing!
  — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
• On the second couch was another man, this one in his mid-thirties and wearing a suit, his cologne the essence of a crisp morning in the mountains.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Oct. 2018
• Then came the deflating news that the jaw likely came from a man of North African ancestry who had died in his thirties.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
• Most were in their forties, fifties or sixties, but seven were in their thirties and six where 70 and older.
  — Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• In a fairer world, these five men, none of them older than their early thirties, would all still be dominating the charts.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024