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twenty-second

a. The ordinal form of the number twenty-two. n. 1 The person or thing in the twenty-second position. 2 One of twenty-two equal parts of a whole.

WordNet
twenty-second

adj. coming next after the twenty-first in position [syn: 22nd]

Usage examples of "twenty-second".

That was attacked on the twenty-second, from both flanks and from the rear.

Hardly had he entered his twenty-second year, when the episcopal seat of Reims fell vacant on the death of the blessed Bishop Bennade.

Edinburgh on the twenty-second of March, where it was soon visible that the interest of the malecontents would entirely prevail.

Jimmy looked out of it at the twenty-second hole, but hit a short bunker shot near the hole to keep the playoff going.

Twenty-second century as if both of them had been there, the science fiction writer expostulating woozy expository lumps, and the Comic from the Future, never breaking character, turning it into schtick.

The twenty-second day of October, the second Sunday Susanna had spent at Appleton Manor, began badly and got worse.

He had taken pictures with a sort of minicamera, actually a molecular recorder from the twenty-second century, disguised as a gem on a ring.

The grand council took place at Onondaga on the twenty-second of January.

The composers were clearly heavily influenced by Western neo-classical symphonies of the early twenty-second century, but there was something strange about the Tyrtaean symphonies.

But there are many other psalms and passages of psalms only second to the fifty-first Psalm, such as the twenty-second, the thirtyeighth, the sixty-ninth, and the hundred-and-thirtieth.

The energy crises of the twenty-first and twenty-second centuries were ancient history now, but the inland airways were so cluttered with private flitterbugs and helicopters, and the zealots of Decivilization so enthusiastic to crusade against large areas of concrete, that the scope of commercial aviation was now reduced to intercontinental flights.

That Sunday, the twenty-second, the British Prime Minis-ter spent at her official country residence, Chequers, in the county of Buckinghamshire.

Peter's: the pope of Avignon, John the Twenty-second, was deposed: the choice of his successor was ratified by their consent and applause.

He said it was entirely possible that, had his client not met with an accident on the night of March twenty-second last, he would have been able to explain his very good reasons for having enhanced his cash position!

Of the five whom Petrarch exhorted, the three first, John the Twenty-second, Benedict the Twelfth, and Clement the Sixth, were importuned or amused by the boldness of the orator.