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
• 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
• The majority of the crowd was in its twenties and thirties.
  — Chris Payne, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
• Now in her thirties, Jaime and her husband have two children.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 29 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Monteiro is in his mid-thirties, with thick black hair that’s going silver around his ears.
  — Brian Merchant, Harper's magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
• Thirty minutes before serving, add the green onion, parsley and lemon juice to the gumbo.
  — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 16 May 2017
• Thirty minutes before serving, add the green onion, parsley, and lemon juice to the gumbo.
  — Michelle Matthews | [e-mail], AL.com, 9 May 2017
• These signs can show as early as your late twenties and early thirties.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
• More than half of Americans are also women – and of those, half are in their thirties to sixties.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Now in my thirties, my under-eyes remain a top concern.
  — Jessica Ourisman, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 June 2023
• Joe Jonas is entering his thirties in style -- shaken, but not stirred.
  — Bonnie Stiernberg, Billboard, 17 Aug. 2019
• Both in their thirties, the superstars are unlikely to return in Qatar in 2022.
  — John Leicester, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
• Baakenna exchanged greetings with the men, who appeared to be in their twenties and thirties, then pointed out the path leading up to the refuge.
  — Rachel Monroe, Outside Online, 29 July 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024