noun
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A banknote with a denomination of 20.
example
The waiter’s face lit up when I gave him a twenty.
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10-20 (location).
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What’s your twenty, good buddy?
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An old English division of infantry.
numeral
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The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one.
Examples of twenty in a Sentence
There were twenty of them, far more than the small house could hold.
I needed twenty minutes to bring the retired detective up to date.
We still have more tests we could run but up to twenty four to forty eight hours; I'm pretty close on both time and location.
He'd dropped twenty in the past six.
Talon shoved her back into the valley with a snarled threat under his breath, and she hurried out of the trough again, breathing hard by the time she'd clambered twenty feet to the top.
She'd been terrified that day, unaware she'd be mated to him twenty four hours later.
The whole bank, which is from twenty to forty feet high, is sometimes overlaid with a mass of this kind of foliage, or sandy rupture, for a quarter of a mile on one or both sides, the produce of one spring day.
They covered a period of twenty years.
I'm twenty-five, he just turned twenty.
Randy Byrne was Cynthia's twenty year-old son from her first marriage.
My books and pages were rattled off quickly while Martha had pointed to twenty different words listed in a large dictionary.
About twenty people were present, including Dolokhov and Denisov.
The man, or boy, couldn't have been more than twenty, yet his steps were as sure as the hands that whirled her around the room.
It happened about twenty minutes ago.
I mean, he's a twenty eight year old man, for heavens' sake.
They say he managed nearly twenty kills before they caught him.
I spoke to her alone for twenty minutes.
The bridge was composed of twenty arches supported by stone pillars, several of which are still visible at low water.
Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.
This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart.
From the far side of the house through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages--twenty times repeated--of a sonata by Dussek.
He will get up in twenty minutes.
When the twenty minutes had elapsed and the time had come for the old prince to get up, Tikhon came to call the young prince to his father.
He explained how an army, ninety thousand strong, was to threaten Prussia so as to bring her out of her neutrality and draw her into the war; how part of that army was to join some Swedish forces at Stralsund; how two hundred and twenty thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thousand Russians and as many English were to land at Naples, and how a total force of five hundred thousand men was to attack the French from different sides.
Behind Kutuzov, at a distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed some twenty men of his suite.
And from the different ranks some twenty men ran to the front.
How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or guidance.
As twenty years before, it seemed impossible that the little creature who lived somewhere under her heart would ever cry, suck her breast, and begin to speak, so now she could not believe that that little creature could be this strong, brave man, this model son and officer that, judging by this letter, he now was.
Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces of the cannon.
Some twenty men were gathered round a table at which Dolokhov sat between two candles.
In reality it already exceeded twenty thousand rubles.
Only excuse me, my dear fellow, I'll give you twenty thousand and a note of hand for eighty thousand as well.
Sonya was nearly twenty; she had stopped growing prettier and promised nothing more than she was already, but that was enough.
Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen.
In their service he risked his skin and his life twenty times a year, and in their service had lost more horses than the money he had from them would buy.
But the Emperor and Balashev passed out into the illuminated garden without noticing Arakcheev who, holding his sword and glancing wrathfully around, followed some twenty paces behind them.
A little memory work might be required, but anyone could count from nineteen to twenty.
Looked like a hunting party of fifteen or twenty.
I've been visiting the San Juans every summer now for the last twenty years.
What are the odds of her meeting this guy and being the daughter of his mine manager from twenty years earlier and a thousand miles away?
While the crow-flies distance across the gaping gorge was only a half-mile, Dean was at least twenty minutes away in driving time.
Perhaps the body is much younger—only ten or twenty or thirty years old.
He'll be back in twenty minutes or so.
You've been coming to Ouray for twenty years.
The human I created twenty six years ago.
They had been happily married for twenty years.
He had twenty assassins to rescue and countless souls waiting to be claimed.
Whatever step towards him she seemed to take this day, she'd leapt back about twenty.
It towered twenty stories tall and sat in a clearing the size of two football fields.
He searched their bodies to find another twenty souls they'd already claimed.