ninety-nine

[ nahyn-tee-nahyn ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 90 plus 9.
2. a symbol for this number, as 99 or XCIX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 99 in number.

Example Sentences

He returned to his home state of Connecticut, became a successful banker, and lived to be ninety-nine.

From The Daily Beast

“Ninety-nine percent of people you see with a turban and a beard are Sikh,” he said.

From The Daily Beast

“Nineteen-ninety-nine is when my first granddaughter was born,” he says.

From The Daily Beast

Ninety-nine percent of the people in this office would vote for Saddam if he was on the ballot.

From The Daily Beast

The ninety-nine percent that is animal causes very little trouble.

From The Daily Beast

The Rajah repeated the same question ninety-nine times, and always received the same answer.

From Project Gutenberg

Don't frown, Anne; ninety-nine men out of a hundred would have lost theirs; and you'll say so if ever I give you the details.

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Out of the fourteen hundred millions of human beings who people the earth, ninety-nine one hundredths do not think.

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“In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, our forecasts would have come true,” she said.

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Old books, in ninety-nine cases out of one hundred, are apt to prove not worth the seeking.

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