Example sentences for: twenty-five

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

  • A similar result is arrived at by calculating in a different way: the almanac estimates a world population of 200 million in AD 1; if they had quietly reproduced themselves every twenty-five years, with no increase in the rate of population growth, almost 16 billion people would have lived and died since then.

  • Two trends over the past twenty-five years have compounded the problems inherent in the traditional retail model.

  • The popularity of the subject seems to have generated a cottage industry in publishing: I would venture a guess that apart from dictionaries and grammers, more books about Yiddish have been published in the United States in the past twenty-five years than about any other minority language used in this country.

  • It's gratifying to see that some twenty-five years after leaving the Enemies List White House, Safire has come to appreciate the awesome dangers of information trafficking, but it's interesting that his proposed reforms still smack of the Nixon M.O.

  • Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.


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