How to Use twenty-two in a Sentence

twenty-two

noun
  • In Nuremberg, in the fall of 1945, twenty-two high-ranking Nazis were put on trial before a group of judges from Allied nations.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Last year, only fifteen per cent of eighth graders met state standards in math, and fewer than twenty-two per cent in reading.
    Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Two thousand twenty-two was not a good year for the world’s leading autocracies.
    Lucan Ahmad Way, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023
  • For example, one study, in Oklahoma, found birds in the stomachs of two of twenty-two cats roaming freely in a residential area.
    Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • By 1990, the point at which hip-hop had fully emerged as a cultural force across the nation—the pinnacle of what became known as its golden era—New York City had reached a record number of homicides: more than twenty-two hundred that year alone.
    Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
  • On immigration and border security, Trump led Biden fifty-seven to twenty-two; on the economy, fifty-five to thirty-three.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
  • In another company trial, college students who used the app reported a twenty-two-per-cent reduction in depressive symptoms in the course of a few weeks.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In Georgia, Black murder defendants whose victims were white were almost twenty-two times as likely to be sentenced to death as those who killed other Blacks, and more than seven times as likely as whites whose victims were Black.
    Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But here, where the average salary is slightly more than twenty-two thousand U.S. dollars, a monthlong stay can consume between twenty to thirty per cent of one’s annual income.
    Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Inoue is now twenty-five and oh, with twenty-two knockouts, having won championships in four different divisions.
    Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 28 July 2023
  • The remarkable career that followed was tragically abbreviated when, in 1981, Woodman died by suicide, at the age of twenty-two.
    Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024
  • At least twenty-two campus security officers and N.Y.P.D. cops watched, from behind metal police barriers.
    Emma Green, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023

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