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US
/ˈtwɛntiˌwɔn/
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ADJECTIVE
- being one more than twenty
NOUN
- a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21
- the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty and one
How To Use twenty-one In A Sentence
- Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century. Billy Budd
- Twenty-one percent of renters paid more than half of their incomes for rent in 1981.
- Twenty-one percent of patients examined had valvulitis or endocarditis.
- Perhaps the most ecumenically minded Catholic independent schools are the twenty-one members of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, and many Jesuit schools also have substantial non-Catholic enrollments.
- Californium - 249 has a half-life of 350 years; mendelevium - 258, fifty-one days; seaborgium - 266 twenty-one seconds.
- The prioress said yes, but the father superior said no, not until she was twenty-one. RIDDLE ME THIS
- It turns out that Keller knowingly allowed some cracked cylinder heads to ship and twenty-one P-40s they were installed in crashed because of it. Lance Mannion:
- 'Yes, he's my oldest, and a likely lad he ar tu -- He's twenty-one, and his name ar JOHN CALHOUN MILLS. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
- Do not, under any circumstances, place the juice in a jug, stopper the jug with a cork, and allow it to sit in a cool, dry place for eighteen to twenty-one days.
- His single cell was the last on the range of twenty-one cells and thus was reached some minutes after the hour.
