THIRTY in a Sentence

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1. Don't trust anyone over thirty.
2. The whole might amount to thirty thousand souls.
3. They own one goat out of every thirty that they tend.
4. Tholomyes was a fast man of thirty, and badly preserved.
5. Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.

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 Meanings and Examples of THIRTY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thirty
 n.  a number equal to three times 10
 a.  being ten more than twenty
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The whole might amount to thirty thousand souls.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In III
2  Immediately Candide saddled the three horses, and Cunegonde, the old woman and he, travelled thirty miles at a stretch.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  But this nobleman having in two years' time been broke upon the wheel along with thirty more Boyards for some broils at court, I profited by that event; I fled.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
4  The kingdom is upwards of three hundred leagues in diameter, and divided into thirty provinces; there the Fathers possess all, and the people nothing; it is a masterpiece of reason and justice.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIV
5  He went back to him again, and declared that he could not carry him to Venice for less than thirty thousand piastres.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
6  "Then you shall have thirty thousand," replied Candide.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XIX
7  They own one goat out of every thirty that they tend.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
8  A little while before he had questioned one of the workmen as to the amount which they earned each day at this occupation; he had been told thirty sous.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX—NEW TROUBLES
9  After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him and saw nothing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
10  Tholomyes was a fast man of thirty, and badly preserved.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
11  He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, the skull at thirty, the knee at forty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
12  The arrobe of Castile contains sixteen litres; the cantaro of Alicante, twelve; the almude of the Canaries, twenty-five; the cuartin of the Balearic Isles, twenty-six; the boot of Tzar Peter, thirty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
13  She was still young; she was barely thirty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
14  In reality, "these two or three millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or forty thousand francs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
15  An old gossip was found, who made the trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thenardiers, and said on her return: "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON M...
Example Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  In the last thirty years, more than a thousand rural workers and activists have been killed in land disputes in Brazil, seven hundred and seventy-two of those in Para.
2  With the oil price soaring above thirty dollars a barrel and the pumps going nearly at full capacity, Gulf Arab coffers are overflowing with unforeseen wealth.
3  Suddenly there was a flash of light and Tom came tearing by him: "Run!" said he; "run, for your life!" He needn't have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered.
4  The opening up of nearly thirty European countries to Chinese tour groups unlocks whole new vistas for the narrow but growing slice of the population with the disposable incomes to take advantage of it.
5  It provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters.
6  Almost a quarter of the world's mammals face extinction within thirty years, according to a United Nations report on the state of the global environment.
7  They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought.
8  I shall continue to act as Adele's governess; by that I shall earn my board and lodging, and thirty pounds a year besides.
9  He was young -- perhaps from twenty- eight to thirty -- tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
10  Almost thirty years ago, NASA's Mariner Ten spacecraft took the most recent pictures we have of Mercury, revealing a rocky surface - wrinkled like an old apple.
11  He said the lack of sustainable food production was contributing to severe shortages which threatened more than thirty million Africans with starvation.
12  The company has failed to achieve last year's sales projections by thirty percent.
13  At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judgment.
14  Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.
15  Don't trust anyone over thirty.