Twenties

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Definitions and meanings of "Twenties"

What do we mean by twenties?

The decade of the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s, etc.

The decade of one's life from age 20 through age 29.

(temperature, rates) The range between 20 and 29.

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The word "twenties" in example sentences

Maybe not teen motherhood but we live in a culture where – for middle class women certainly – even having children in your twenties is regarded as too young. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I counted out the four hundred dollars in twenties to make sure it was all there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I always laugh when an actor in his lower twenties is given the role of the Ph.D. in a film. ❋ Richard Nokes (2005)

Founded in 1915 in Georgia, the "modern" Ku Klux Klan, an anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic organization, reached its peak of power in the U.S. in the mid-twenties; is now moribund. ❋ Unknown (1960)

But this partial autobiography, which ends in the nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence in his favor, all the more because it covers what he would have called the unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside the saint, or near-saint, there was a very shrewd, able person who could, if he had chosen, have been a brilliant success as a lawyer, an administrator or perhaps even a businessman. ❋ Unknown (1949)

If the keynote of the writers of the twenties is ‘tragic sense of life’, the keynote of the new writers is ‘serious purpose’. ❋ Unknown (1940)

I am aiming at men (and, hopefully, women) from early-teens to mid-twenties, which is pretty much the standard comic book audience. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Too bad I would look awful in a matching dress: the twenties were a bad time for curvy ladies as the waistline was too low ... ❋ Nathreee (2009)

I also recalled the twenties I passed him back in June for travel emergencies when we put him on a plane to Kansas. ❋ Stephen Kreider Yoder (2010)

But for our family, as for many other Korean households in Hawai'i, the twenties were a time of rising prosperity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And your twenties are a good time to take career risks since younger workers typically don't have commitments like a family or a mortgage. ❋ Rachel Louise Ensign (2011)

These cars get highway mileage in the high twenties, which is nothing to be impressed with. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These days people are calling the twenties the new teens, the thirties the new twenties, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Only 77.8% of those in their twenties were aware of his victory. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Like most people my twenties were a time of uncertainty, mainly with relationships and career. ❋ Jill (2010)

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