How to Use thirty in a Sentence
thirty
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In the back half of his thirties, though, his declining speed took a toll.
—Jack Dickey, SI.com, 4 May 2018
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On the other side of the square, a woman in her thirties comes out of a grocery store with a small bag.
—Ben Wedeman, CNN, 24 June 2024
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Jim Davis/Globe Staff In all, 11 people in their twenties and thirties signed up for the class.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2023
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There are a lot of people in their thirties and forties who hold this movie very near and dear.
—Nicole Sperling, HWD, 20 Dec. 2017
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By the 2000s, over half of the black men in Milwaukee County in their thirties had state prison records.
—Caleb Gayle, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2019
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His approval rating in most polls has moved up from the high thirties to the low forties.
—Ronald Brownstein, CNN, 22 May 2018
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The majority of the crowd was in its twenties and thirties.
—Chris Payne, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
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He is stunted enough to still be hung up on his first love in his thirties—and yet too shy to own up to his feelings.
—Hazlitt, 15 May 2024
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At the press conference, Harding said the victims' ages range from 19 to 43, but most of them are in their thirties.
—Stephanie Warsmith, USA TODAY, 3 June 2024
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Now in her thirties, Jaime and her husband have two children.
—Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 29 July 2019
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All of us were white, and all of us in our thirties or forties except for Gavin, who was twenty-one.
—Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
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O’Loughlin, then in his mid-thirties, with a strong jaw and a slightly crooked smile, started chatting her up.
—Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
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Frannie is in her thirties, broke and disheartened by her lack of progress on all fronts.
—Renee Valois, Twin Cities, 29 June 2019
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Thirty teams suit up every year trying to get to this point, and only two teams do.
—Tim Reynolds, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
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His wife died of ovarian cancer last year, and his son is in his thirties.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
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Next to him is a scruffy man in his thirties who has the chemical structure of dopamine tattooed on his left arm.
—Bruce Schoenfeld, WIRED, 30 May 2018
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Now that three-quarters of them are in their thirties, there are distractions at home: wives, kids, rent.
—Eve Barlow, GQ, 7 May 2018
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And then both of our careers totally took off in our late thirties.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
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The mahout was in his thirties and his whole family had worked with elephants.
—National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
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The men in their thirties and forties who are single are so depressing!
—Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 30 June 2017
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On the second couch was another man, this one in his mid-thirties and wearing a suit, his cologne the essence of a crisp morning in the mountains.
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Oct. 2018
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Then came the deflating news that the jaw likely came from a man of North African ancestry who had died in his thirties.
—New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
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Most were in their forties, fifties or sixties, but seven were in their thirties and six where 70 and older.
—Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
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Monteiro is in his mid-thirties, with thick black hair that’s going silver around his ears.
—Brian Merchant, Harper's magazine, 31 Dec. 2019
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Thirty minutes before serving, add the green onion, parsley and lemon juice to the gumbo.
—Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 16 May 2017
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Thirty minutes before serving, add the green onion, parsley, and lemon juice to the gumbo.
—Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, AL.com, 9 May 2017
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These signs can show as early as your late twenties and early thirties.
—Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
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More than half of Americans are also women – and of those, half are in their thirties to sixties.
—Will Bunch, Philly.com, 11 Mar. 2018
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Now in my thirties, my under-eyes remain a top concern.
—Jessica Ourisman, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 June 2023
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But Caron, who is in his late thirties and grew up exploring the woods of South Carolina, prefers a leave-no-trace approach.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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