How to Use thirty-three in a Sentence

thirty-three

noun
  • The Hackmans had been married for thirty-three years.
    — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Hamner, who is thirty-three, is accustomed to places in crisis.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The red leash that his hundred-and-ten-pound Bouvier had worn was of course too large for a rescue of thirty-three pounds soaking wet.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Roden-Reynolds is thirty-three and has been the island’s public-health biologist for four years.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • New York’s prison system, which currently holds about thirty-three thousand people, is opaque and sprawling.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The angel instructed the faithful at Jerusalem to go on a flagellant procession for thirty-three and a half days.
    — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The thirty-three-year-old pop star Charlie Puth, headlining his first jazz residency, was due for a sound check with his band.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The day of the show, thirty-three models, each bearing or wearing their runway outfit, reported for hair and makeup to a third-floor room with vending machines in it.
    — Henry Alford, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The Smokies, like other national parks, pays some outside search-and-rescue forces an hourly wage, ranging from about twenty-five to thirty-three dollars.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Dance This year’s Dance on Camera Festival showcases thirty-three films from twelve countries.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
  • But Starmer won almost the biggest majority in British political history with thirty-three per cent of the vote.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Maybe to one-up John Cage and his infamous four minutes, thirty-three seconds of silence, Sun Ra had composed a piece for a band that never comes.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • In the summer of 2024, McTominay was sold to Napoli, for around thirty-three million dollars.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
  • Freston was thirty-three, deep in debt, and back in New York City when he got hired as the marketing guy at a start-up that would become MTV.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Sonny, is the thirty-three-year-old captain of South Korea’s World Cup team and the only Asian footballer who’s globally mononymous.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 24 June 2026
  • Two years ago, New York City announced that the Coursen, which runs on diesel, would be replaced by a thirty-three-million-dollar hybrid-electric passenger ferry.
    — Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Studio 54 burned bright and brief, lasting just thirty-three months between April 1977 and February 1980.
    — Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • Six months later, on Christmas Day, 1991, Nelson’s oldest son, Billy, who was thirty-three, took his life in a cabin at Ridgetop.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Still, the South China Morning Post noted that, unlike Para Site’s previous leaders, the thirty-three-year-old was not well known in the local art scene.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 17 Mar. 2026
  • After sixteen days, the university police, with the support of a hundred Philadelphia police officers, arrested thirty-three activists.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Trump, in contrast, got free airtime from all of America’s major television networks for his Christmas commercial, which was delivered in the form of an eighteen-minute-and-thirty-three-second run-on sentence.
    — Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
  • At thirty-three, Chalker was older than most of his classmates, with more experience professionally and abroad, and he was tapped to spend a day with James Pavitt, then the agency’s director of operations.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Whipper also discusses his friendship with the poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar, who died in 1906, at the age of thirty-three; the two men had been neighbors and fishing buddies.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • From 1954 to 1978, regulators issued a hundred and thirty-three construction permits for civilian nuclear reactors.
    — Colin Jones, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2025
  • In the case of Alina Templeton-Perks, a thirty-three-year-old British woman who suffered from crippling self-doubt and took her own life in 2008, perfectionism was even listed among the official causes of death.
    — Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • After thirty-three years in the business, Richie Baxley, owner of Environmental Chimney Service in Western North Carolina, has seen it all.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2025
  • For progressives, the undisputed master of the viral protest song is the thirty-three-year-old folksinger Jesse Welles, who makes videos of himself standing in a field, singing clever miniature tunes about the hypocrisies of the health-care industry, tech billionaires, ICE.
    — Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
  • In a thirty-three-day ramble along the Hudson and Connecticut rivers in 1791, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison encountered many of the issues that would end up plaguing the United States.
    — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Feb. 2026
  • As Schulten details, the Society was formed in Washington, DC in 1888 with thirty-three scholars and scientists led by wealthy attorney Gardiner Greene Hubbard.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 1 June 2026
  • The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), a leading light of the Glasgow experimental and contemporary art scene and a mainstay in the larger Scottish art scene, is closing after thirty-three years in operation.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 2 Feb. 2026

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