Example sentences for: twenties

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

  • At the start of the twenties, inflation had made little more than nonsense of the German currency, and political assassinations became routine.

  • He had, in his wretched twenties, dangling by a wrecked arm on a homemade exercise gibbet, accepted, no, hugged to himself the knowledge that life was hard and then you died.

  • The turbulent twenties gave Berlin a special place in the world’s popular imagination.

  • In reply to Milton Horowitz [XVIII, 2], gedunk originated in Harold Teen, a comic strip of the twenties, by Carl Ed, replete with cutie-pie flappers, porkpie hats, bellbottom slacks, and epigraphic yellow slickers and jalopies.

  • Also, for the first two years of the Depression, the Roosevelt administration essentially ignored the needs of the youths it had turned out of work, except in the effort of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which was aimed at men in their late teens and early twenties.


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