How to Use twenty-two in a Sentence
twenty-two
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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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