How to use "twenty" in a sentence

I guess they are about twenty-five years old.

It takes twenty-five throws before it lands in the right place

I stand and chip for twenty minutes, then sit and rest for twenty minutes

2.45 pm It's exactly twenty-four hours since the accident.

I have been trapped in Blue John Canyon for the last twenty-four hours

It takes me twenty minutes

On October the 25th - two days before my twenty-eighth birthday - I returned to Blue John Canyon

"Yes, about twenty miles away

Coach Fellers asked me to put on a football suit, then asked me to undress and dress again, twenty times, until I could do it easily.

One of them, a girl of twenty-three, died recently

He thought the woman had died between twenty to thirty minutes before

Mary Jane Kelly was twenty-five years old

He had woken because the bed was too comfortable; he had not slept in a proper bed for twenty years

Unable to return to sleep, he gazed into the darkness, thinking about the past twenty years

But now, for the first time in twenty years, a man had shown him great kindness, and he did not know what to feel.

He was a prisoner I saw twenty years ago, when I worked at a prison in Toulon

'Forty sous,' Mme Thenardier replied (although the usual price was twenty).

For twenty-five years he had been alone in the world

The old man paused for a moment before saying, 'So, you want to get married at the age of twenty-one

There were only twenty-six men left, and the main attack on the barricade was going to take place very soon

'I'll tell you for twenty francs.'

"That's okay," Robin says, and he picks up one of the bags and puts it on the table, "we brought our own money: twenty thousand pounds in small notes

He is alone on the jetty, apart from the boat attendant at his chair twenty metres away, his feet on a boat and a cigarette in his mouth

The creek is twenty metres from the farm house, and the evening seems to be alive with insects and birds that live in the trees near the green water.

She must be only twenty-five or twenty-six

You can imagine the street outside: twenty terraced houses stretching down the road

How long ago was his last visit to this cold stone building? More than twenty years? Well, that is not important at the moment

I mean twenty thousand

They can get twenty thousand from the bank at Banff

Junior looks a bit happier now, and for twenty minutes Owen talks to him about how to hold the gun and how to walk with it, while his son listens carefully and asks sensible questions that show a real interest

twenty-five..

It's for people our age: seventeen to twenty-one."

For the next twenty-four hours, Sala tried to think clearly

Fifteen, twenty minutes

If your body is in good health, you will then return to the pod for a further twenty-three months."

I was twenty-one and de Winter was the first man I had ever loved

In twenty-four hours, you have grown so much older.'

Chapter twenty

Chapter twenty one

Chapter twenty two

Chapter twenty three

Chapter twenty four

'It's twenty past two,' Maxim replied.

'We are beginning again in twenty minutes.'

'I can give you twenty dollars to park the cars at my party tonight, Nathan,' he says

Two blocks from her house, intending to buy a quart of milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at a twenty-four-hour market and parked in the dry yellow drizzle of a sodium-vapor light, beside a gleaming, cream-colored Chevrolet station wagon

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

At forty-six, he was the most successful producer in Las Vegas, with twenty years of hit shows behind him

Eva was twenty-nine, seventeen years younger than Joel, and at five foot eight, she was also four inches taller than he was

They pulled the handles for hours at a time, often making a twenty-dollar bill last a long afternoon

Besides, for the past twenty-one years, ever since her Harry died, she had always taken care of herself

But how was that possible? How in the name of God could there be ice here, in a well-heated house and on a night when the outside temperature was at least twenty degrees above the freezing point?

She had counted only twenty-two names when she came to an incredible message that the computer had inserted in the list.

She found it after another twenty-six names.

The laser whispered through twenty names, forty, sixty, seventy, without producing the lines about Danny that had been on the first printout

Approximately two hundred guests danced or milled about behind the house, and another hundred partied within its twenty rooms.

After twenty minutes of diligent mixing, Elliot found Harold Kennebeck

"This will take me maybe fifteen or twenty minutes."

"Fifteen, twenty minutes."

In this residential neighborhood, the speed limit was twenty-five miles an hour

"The twenty-footer."

"I don't own a twenty-footer."

With more than a million full-time residents, with more than twenty million tourists a year, and with a vast desert on which to sprawl, Vegas offered thousands of dark, quiet corners where two people on the run could safely stop to catch their breath and settle upon a course of action.

In Reno, which billed itself as "The Biggest Little City in the World," the temperature hovered at twenty-one degrees above zero as midnight approached

Deep inside the secret Sierra complex, three stories below ground level, this room measured forty feet by twenty

They had taken only two steps from the window when Elliot saw the snow move no more than twenty feet from them

He expected to see the entire white-shrouded lawn begin to move and rise in the forms of ten, fifteen, twenty other assassins.

A neatly folded pair of twenty-dollar bills, placed without ostentation into the hand of a front-desk clerk, was almost certain to result in the timely discovery of a forgotten vacancy.

Carlton Dombey, who had come on duty twenty minutes ago, sat at one of the tables against the north wall

He stopped, put the Explorer in reverse, and backed up twenty feet, until the headlights were shining on the trail that she had spotted.

Two uniformed men were anxiously fiddling with the control consoles beneath a series of twenty wall-mounted video displays

They were in a rectangular room approximately forty feet by twenty

"To understand that," Dombey said, "you have to go back twenty months

Once infected, no one lives more than twenty-four hours

It had been only fifteen or twenty feet above the pavement, but it rapidly climbed forty, fifty, sixty feet.

We won the arbitration, and the writer has not, in the intervening twenty-odd years, become a famous director or, as far as I know, a director of any status.

She thinks, "No!" But she says, "Why do you want another hat, Bernardo? You have twenty!"

She is twenty years younger than I am, very pretty, and unable to take anything seriously.

Because when that clock said twenty past six it was really only five minutes past, and at five minutes past I don't suppose Colonel Protheroe had even arrived at the house.'

'At twenty minutes past six

'At twenty minutes past six?' said Miss Marple

And yet at twenty past six he sits down and says he "can't wait any longer".'

But that was twenty years ago

That was at twenty past six

It said that Griselda had been seen leaving Lawrence Redding's cottage at twenty past six on the day of the murder

Just before twenty past six, she walked past my garden and stopped to speak to me

Then he set fire to the end of the rope, knowing that it would take about twenty minutes to burn through and for the stone to fall and cause the explosion

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

When I got there, I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the great pit in which the cylinder lay

Leatherhead is about twenty kilometres from Maybury

I have a faknee-int memory of the foot of a Martian coming down within twenty metres of my head, going straight into the loose stones

No doubt the Martians were very frightening, but there could not be more than twenty of them against our millions.

There was also a notice which said that within twenty-four hours bread would be given to the hungry people

In twenty-four hours they did twenty-four hours of work.

'Effie, my wife was a young widow only twenty-five years old, when I met her

I waited for about twenty minutes, and then she returned.

There are only twenty-four hours in the day, and you sleep most of that time

We waited twenty minutes for a taxi

And a twenty-three-year-old child who chooses a silly way to fight life's problems

'Next March, on your twenty-first birthday, you'll inherit thirty thousand pounds

You must now write a will saying who you wish to leave the other twenty thousand pounds to when you die.'

I wanted to make the best marriage settlement I could in order to protect her interests, if Laura Fairlie dies, I wrote, 'the twenty thousand pounds will be left according to her will.' That evening, I sent the settlement to Sir Percival's lawyer.

In the margin, by my statement about the twenty thousand pounds, the lawyer had written, 'No - if Laura Fairlie dies, Sir Percival will inherit the twenty thousand pounds.

I told him not to sign the settlement unless the part about the twenty thousand pounds remained as I had first written it

The date of the wedding is the twenty-second of December of this year

However, since Madame Fosco was forty-three and Laura was twenty-one, that was unlikely

'If she dies without children, I'll get twenty thousand pounds.'

'If she dies, you get twenty thousand pounds.'

I certify that Lady Glyde, aged twenty-one, died on 25 July 1850 at 5 Forest Road, London

When she came back five years later, at twenty years old, she could speak good French and knew how to cook, but she also knew chemistry.

On 2nd July 1928, women were given equal voting rights with men they could vote at the age of twenty-one

In 1929, when she was twenty-one years old, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosopher

Nancy wanted women of twenty-one years old to vote

In 1928, women got the vote at twenty-one.

She flew aeroplanes for her job at the age of twenty

She was twenty-six.

But only twenty-two women played in those Games, out of the 997 people from nineteen countries

The twenty-nine-year-old Billie Jean beat the fifty-five-year-old Bobby 6-4, 6 - 3, 6-3