eighty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.
From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020
Not even the death of her husband—also an avid daily runner—a few years ago, when he was eighty-nine, slowed her down.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 30, 2019
They made their burger sustainable: the Impossible Burger requires eighty-seven per cent less water and ninety-six per cent less land than a cowburger, and its production generates eighty-nine per cent less G.H.G. emissions.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019
On the boat of eighty-nine runners heading to Antarctica she mingled with her fellow explorers.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2018
The book was eighty-nine pages long, and this surprised Palmer.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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