How To Use twenty-first In A Sentence
- Beijing is contending for the leadership of the twenty-first century.
- How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
- I fancy it was delightless to the husband as to the wife - just turning her twenty-first year, and learning for the first time in her sheltered life the taste of privation. Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
- Her sapphire ring had been in such a box, her twenty-first birthday ring. The Glasgow Girls
- About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
- Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
- Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture. Harper's Magazine
- With a metafictional wink and a nod from Dew, the narrator comments, "In fact, not until the second decade of the twenty-first century would Sputnik's connection to the demise of Desert Rose dinnerware . . . be noted and remarked upon in a novel written late in the career of one of those three-named women writers who initially cropped up in the 1980s. Book World: 'Being Polite to Hitler' rounds out profile of an American family
- Thus contemporary virtue ethics needs a notion of moral character apt for the twenty-first century. The Times Literary Supplement
- They counteract the tendency in twenty-first century America towards biblical illiteracy. Christianity Today
