Example sentences for: thirties

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

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Introduced by von Holst in the thirties of the last century (see references in [ 11 15 16 17 ] ), (relative) coordination is equivalent to the existence of certain phase relations without claiming that these phase relations are due to real coupling mechanisms.

  • But in García Márquez had merely written, much more simply: "She was in the flower of her thirties, she had been married by the Catholic Church at nineteen, and she had given her husband five children."

  • 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.


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