We found 43 examples of how to use twenty-four in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 43.
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| 1. | Thomas A. Edison so loves his work that he sleeps an average of less than four hours of each twenty-four. | |
| 2. | Twenty-four percent of the people in group one [men born between 1960 to 1964], almost one-in-four, didn't work because they were in prison. | |
| 3. | Bears also tend to sleep more during the day than at night, although in the summer, with twenty-four hours of light, this does not apply. | |
| 4. | A day has twenty-four hours. | |
| 5. | This room is twelve feet by twenty-four feet. | |
| 6. | Our school has twenty-four classes in all. | |
| 7. | The new jet circles the globe in twenty-four hours. | |
| 8. | We have twenty-four chairs in this class-room. | |
| 9. | There are twenty-four hours in a day. | |
| 10. | There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. | |
| 11. | I would be bored if I had to count to five hundred twenty-four thousand three hundred seventy-two. | |
| 12. | Tom didn't get his driver's license until he was twenty-four. | |
| 13. | Tom had his wisdom teeth taken out by a twenty-four year old dentist. | |
| 14. | There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in the United States, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. | |
| 15. | There is no such thing, at this stage of the world’s history in The United States of America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my papers, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. | |
| 16. | I need twenty-four hours. | |
| 17. | The spinal column is composed of twenty-four bones. | |
| 18. | A day is a period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper — the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort. | |
| 19. | An ostrich egg weighs as much as twenty-four chicken eggs. | |
| 20. | I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours—that is another matter. | |
| 21. | Clyde Tombaugh was only twenty-four years old when he discovered Pluto. | |
| 22. | I memorized the powers of two up to twenty-four. | |
| 23. | He is twenty-four years old. | |
| 24. | He's twenty-four years old. | |
| 25. | About twenty-four miles from Mitylene a rich man had an estate, none finer than which could be found in all the surrounding country. The neighbouring woods abounded with game, the fields yielded corn, the hillocks were covered with vines, there was pasture land for the herds, and the whole was bounded by the sea, which washed an extensive smooth and sandy shore. |