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How to use the word Twenty in a Sentence?

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I should, indeed, prefer twenty men to escape death through mercy, than one innocent to be condemned unjustly.

Sir John Fortescue

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6 months ago

Twenty months after the withdrawal, many are in hiding in Afghanistan, trying to escape Taliban retaliation, others have already been arrested or killed.

Visa Delays SIGAR

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Blinken asked for contact with Lavrov, sergey Viktorovich (Lavrov) spoke on the go, as part of the second session of the twenty [G20], there were no negotiations, meetings, etc.

Foreign Affairs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Twenty-one, two of them are children.

Ahmad Alaabd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Twenty four days – no land, nobody to talk to. Don’t know what to do, don’t know where you are. It was rough, at a certain time, I lose hope. I think about my family.

Elvis Francois

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Twenty billion dollars is the equivalent of every penny Egypt has borrowed from the IMF since 2016, and it disappeared in weeks (last year).

Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It had been a very bad idea. I ’d had plenty of bad ideas in my twenty-three years, but this one was uniquely ill-conceived. I ’d told Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry that I wanted closure, but I did n’t really. Deep down, I ’d hoped to feel in that tunnel what I ’d felt when JLP [ Jamie Lowther Pinkerton, former private secretary to Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry and Prince William ] gave me the police files — disbelief. Doubt. Instead, that was the night all doubt fell away, i ’d thought driving the tunnel would bring an end, or brief cessation, to the pain, the decade of unrelenting pain. Instead, it brought on the start of Pain, Part Deux.

Chris Jackson/Getty Images Harry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

His twenty-four years at the CDF were far more influential than his tenure as pope.

David Gibson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think it's just revisiting the characters twenty years later and just imagining the Bride and her daughter, Bebe, having 20 years of peace.

Quentin Tarantino

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was 27 gunshots that went off that day, twenty-seven.

Angela Gregg

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A family was barbecuing out in front of the house and someone drove by and unloaded on them, firing off about twenty or thirty rounds.

William McManus

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a day I’ll remember for a long, long time. Twenty-one PGA Tour wins, one more than somebody else.

Rory McIlroy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I used to think bad dream it’ll surely go away if you wait long enough, better if you could start all over wearing just the birthday suit – but since, I’ve learned that’s out so instead go therapeutically to a lonely far-off place, shout “too much” twenty times, return & laugh hysterically and then breathe a silent thanks for sincere smiles, warm welcomes and adults consenting mutually…

Jim DeWitt

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

This is what he ran on and what people need to understand when he ran for district attorney, he ran on, ‘I am going to indict police officers for wrongdoing,’ and it's what he perceives as wrongdoing and you have to look at his background to realize what he perceives as wrongdoing. So in the last 14 months, he's been the D.A. If he does indict twenty-one Austin police officers, he will have indicted close to 30 police officers in 14 months.

Dennis Farris

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Twenty-six governors sent the president a letter in September asking for a meeting. We have not gotten a response.

Greg Gianforte

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Two hundred twenty thousand Americans dead.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Twenty precious first graders, six heroic educators, a lone gunman. In an unconscionable act of violence, everything changed that morning for you, and the nation was shocked.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Twenty-eight members of the minority caucus could not be bothered to exhibit common decency and humanity all because they would rather have a couple of minutes on TV news.

Craig Coughlin

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

For the past twenty-one years, both the state and federal judicial system have been involved in scrutinizing this case, the courts have heard multiple appeals in multiple forms and at multiple levels from Julius Jones. They have found no claim which necessitated the granting of relief.

Paul Howell website

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The PPE we’ve all worn the past twenty months is highly effective, so I just don’t see any good reason for it. I’m young and healthy, i also trust my naturalimmunity.

Former Seattle fireman Andy Pittman

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Twenty-five days in that area is extremely tough. I wouldn't want to do it and I've got jungle training, I've got mountain training, he's not sleeping well, and when you don't sleep you slowly drive yourself insane, so he would be making bad decisions, bad choices and I think that would cause him to be found or get injured or perish.

Jason Marsteiner

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At that point I realized Encode Justice is addressing a challenge that isn't limited to one single ballot measure, it's a twenty-first-century civil rights challenge we're going to have to grapple with.

Sneha Revanur

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban declaration to celebrate or to endorse, It encourages restrictions on the freedom of expression. It exists to divide and discriminate and runs contrary to the laudable goal of combating racism and racial discrimination.

Kelly Craft

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We felt a real burden and a responsibility to have success for this area and for the people who were going through such challenging times, and I thought that moment captured it where we all kind of came together, it's still one of my favorite pictures I've ever had in football. I have it in my office. I have it at my house. So many distinct memories of that time. Twenty years later, I mean, they're vivid. They're vivid and you can still feel them. Obviously, a very tragic time in our country's history.

Jason Garrett

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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