919 examples of twenty-two in sentences

In a note on the first page of his work on the Bhilsa Topes (1854), General Cunningham says: "The Christians number about two hundred and seventy millions; the Buddhists about two hundred and twenty-two millions, who are distributed as follows: China one hundred and seventy millions, Japan twenty-five millions, Anam fourteen millions, Siam three millions, Ava eight millions, Nepál one million, and Ceylon one million."

"Monsieur l'Abbé, we have just buried here twenty-two French soldiers.

Then this holy man St. Patrick, the bishop, lived till he was one hundred and twenty-two years old, and was the first that was bishop in Ireland, and died in Aurelius Ambrose's time that was king of Britain.

The surface measures were described as follows: In twelve of the twenty-two areas into which the waters round the United Kingdom were divided, regular hunting flotillas were at work, comprising trawlers and motor launches fitted with hydrophones.

The troops at his disposal amounted to twenty-two thousand fighting mena formidable force, and enough to justify the serious apprehensions of the republic.

Besides these, there were twenty-two vessels with decks, which were usually kept at Alexandria, to guard the port.

It is a generally received opinion that gold mines are equally to be met with in the Province of Caraga, situated on the coasts of the great Island of Mindanao, where, as well as in other points, this metal is met with equal to twenty-two karats.

Portmanteaus were exchanged for a pair of light leather saddle-bags, artistically embellished with squares of bright Persian carpet let in at the side, and purchased in the bazaar for twenty-two keráns, or about seventeen shillings English money.

You don't look a day over twenty-two, and I think men who are really grown up and yet look like boys are simply adorable!

Tony is barely twenty-two and she has home obligations which will have to be considered.

He had been in the island twenty-two years, and he had never seen a negro woman drunk, on the estate.

[Illustration] Great numbers of people became interested in his plan, and finally twenty-two persons under Oglethorpe's lead formed an association and secured a charter from King George II.

I think my mama left at freedom and come to twenty or twenty-two miles from Oxford, Mississippi.

Two days later, off Cape Palos, he took a brig of twenty-two guns and one hundred and eighty men.

Upon the arrival of the vessel which was to pay his subscription, he found the difference in exchange between certain countries, had swelled his thousand dollars to twenty-two hundred.

Of the twenty-two torpedo boats leaving Toulon a few days before, but six arrived near the enemy, although their commanders displayed admirable energy.

Here was Penelope, twenty-two, beautiful, proud, fair-minded, and healthy, surveying herself for the first time from a new and an entirely different point of view.

Twenty-two heavy round-shot coming in at once upon a little craft like le Feu-Follet was a fearful visitation, and the "boldest held their breath for a time" as the iron whirlwind whistled past them.

The depth upon the rocky bar which stretches across the entrance is six fathoms, but immediately without it the depth is twenty-two fathoms.

It rests on a granite pedestal, ten feet square, the whole being twenty-two feet square.

"Twenty-two years have passed since then.

We covered twenty-two miles by sundown, a rather poor day's showing; and camped on the bare flat desert, using water and wood we had packed with us.

When we arrived in a small cañon in the edge of the mountains we found them with a fine mountain sheep which they had killed and brought down to the dim, little-used trail where we camped; and after we had set up our little tent as usual, a short distance away from our friends, one of the young men brought to us about one fourth of the sheep, while the twenty-two Indians had the rest.

The class now numbered twenty-two members.

In this tremendous conflict the Confederates lost twenty-two thousand five hundred men killed and wounded and five thousand taken prisoners by the Northernersa total loss of twenty-eight thousand out of eighty thousand in the battle.

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