TWENTY in a Sentence

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For TWENTY, below is one of 262 sentences:
"Why not here, as well as in a feather bed, twenty years hence," he muttered, as he seated himself in the shelter of a boulder.

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 Meanings and Examples of TWENTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
twenty
 a.  denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units
 n.  the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Boots pointed out the door to me, and was about to go downstairs again when I saw something that made me feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years' experience.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  "Why not here, as well as in a feather bed, twenty years hence," he muttered, as he seated himself in the shelter of a boulder.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  That girl that I spoke of was to have married me twenty years ago.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  If any of you gentlemen have ever pined for a thing, and longed for it during twenty long years, and then suddenly found it within your reach, you would understand my feelings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
5  This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep--and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
6  Not one of them, not even the youngest, not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away, ever ceased to marvel at that.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
7  But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
8  Only something over a hundred and twenty years the Olivers had been there.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
9  She would be in and out twenty times, and finally bring them lemonade in a great jug and a plate of sandwiches.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
10  "Four and twenty blackbirds, strung upon a string," she muttered.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
11  He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
12  I were one-and-twenty myseln; she were twenty nighbut.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
13  He was a very light porter indeed; as light as in the days when he blinkingly defined a horse, for girl number twenty.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
14  It might have been twenty thousand pound.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
15  She did this, twenty, thirty times.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  My eyes took in every detail as I entered the house for the first time in twenty years.
17  They claim that one in twenty deaths can be directly attributed to air pollution.
18  Four multiplied by five is twenty.
19  The former leader was today restored to power in the first free elections for twenty years.
20  After twenty years of heavy beer-drinking he has a massive potbelly.
21  The room can hold twenty people.
22  Take a hundred and twenty values and calculate the mean.
23  She outlived her husband by twenty years.
24  The picture is worth at least twenty pounds.
25  Miss Pearce said she expected an unqualified retraction of his comments within twenty four hours.
26  Though nearly twenty he was barely literate.
27  Goldsworth stared at me in silence for nearly twenty seconds.
28  Pick a number from one to twenty.
29  The method of study finally chosen was that of participant observation of a community for an eventual period of twenty months.
30  She married a man twenty years her senior.