Collocations for "twenty"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "twenty" in context.
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twenty
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.cardinal
- she is [around, about] twenty
- is in her twenties
- the [house, car, ship] was built in the twenties
- the [Charleston, Can Can] was popular in the twenties
- the temperature was in the [low, high] twenties
- a size twenty
- twenty out of every hundred
- twenty plus [one] equals [twenty-one]
- twenty minus [one] equals [nineteen]
- [took out, paid with] a twenty
- [just, only] twenty (more, hours, pieces) left
- twenty [pieces, parts, chapters]
- is twenty years old
- turned twenty years old (today)
- will be twenty (years old)
- a twenty-year-old [man, movie]
- twenty [minutes, days, years] later
- twenty [minutes] [after, ago, before]
- on (more) than twenty separate occasions
- took (me) twenty hours to finish
- [about, approximately, around, near] twenty
- do twenty more [sit ups, push ups]
- [wasted, spent, worth] twenty thousand dollars
'twenty' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
annual
- axle
- bondage
- borrow
- cargo
- casualty
- container
- contest
- convict
- conviction
- crow
- debris
- departure
- double
- driving
- employed
- expense
- fifth
- fourteen
- gate
- handicap
- highway
- inception
- knot
- lap
- lease
- limited
- loading
- luggage
- male
- mansion
- mile
- military
- mortgage
- muffin
- nineteen
- north
- part
- plus
- porter
- powder
- rally
- recipe
- refund
- rental
- rinse
- ruler
- salute
- servant
- session