twenty-second
[twen-tee-sek-uh nd, twuhn-]
- next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
- being one of 22 equal parts.
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- a twenty-second part, especially of one (1/22).
- the twenty-second member of a series.
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Examples from the Web for twenty-second
Contemporary Examples
The Golden Girls can make you giggle, then wipe a tear, in a twenty-second span.
In 1995, Mitch McConnell introduced his own resolution to repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment in the Senate.
The Twenty-Second Amendment introduced term limits for the presidency.
Historical Examples
The two strangers had arrived, it appeared, on the evening of the twenty-second, Friday.
The DestroyerBurton Egbert Stevenson
November twenty-second has come, and with it colder weather.
A Woman who went to AlaskaMay Kellogg Sullivan
So expeditious, in fact, was Beza, that on the twenty-second of August he was in Paris.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)Henry Martyn Baird
The consequence was a total annihilation of the Mountain on May twenty-second.
The Life of Napoleon BonaparteWilliam Milligan Sloane
On March twenty-second he reached the headquarters of the Army of Italy.
The Life of Napoleon BonaparteWilliam Milligan Sloane