Example sentences for: thirties

How can you use “thirties” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Wilson was head of the English department at the University of Saskatchewan, and during the thirties he gave a course on the origin and development of language.

  • Both list Filofax ( Neologisms holding that the trade mark was registered in 1941, the ODNW says the early thirties), and, as expected, the latter includes several subentries (e.g.

  • Horthy maintained his role as regent in the grim twenties and thirties while the country, demoralized and impoverished, seethed over the treaty.

  • One defect in the story: It says that Chrysler's role in the German rearmament effort in the thirties was "much less significant" than that of the other two companies.

  • He became President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in his thirties and, since there was no compulsory retirement age in those days, clung to that office until his death, in 1854--at the age of 99!


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