Example Sentences

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"It's alarming to see rising rates among women in their Twenties and Thirties because they are not regularly screened for breast cancer."

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

Lily Collins had it easier than most imagining what life would be like for an ambitious scion of a showbiz family navigating the professional, personal and gender politics of Thirties Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2017

V. S. Pritchett, in a review of “Blindness,” which was available for the first time since 1932, called Green “the most luminous novelist of the Thirties and Forties.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

The two-piece menswear tuxedo that opened the show - diaphanous yet authoritative - set the period: the Katherine Hepburn of the glamorous Thirties.

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2015

Jonas sat, dazed, as they moved into the Thirties and then the Forties, nearing the end.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry