Example sentences for: twenty-one

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

  • Twenty-one of the 345 admissions (6%) during the first year of the study had blood stream infection compared with 35 of 435 admissions (8%) during the second year and 32 of 445 admissions (7%) during the third year ( P = 0.5748).

  • (The Oxford English Dictionary devotes twenty-one pages to set ). Another strategy often used to assure comprehension is to use a one-letter word and then to follow it with the meaning intended.

  • The article provoked an outpouring of letters, twenty-one of which were published in Commentary 's August issue.

  • more difficult to remember, with its tortured word order, than the twenty-one places of pi it yields.

  • Compounding native English words or elements produces all classes of combinations—noun: farmhouse ; verb: understand ; adjective: twenty-one ; adverb: herewith ; preposition: into ; pronoun: someone ; conjunction: because ; interjection: good grief . It is also a gradual process, as evidenced by the sequence of to day, to-day, today .


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