eighty-seventh

American  

[ey-tee-sev-uhnth] / ˈeɪ tiˈsɛv ənθ /

adjective

1. next after the eighty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 87.

2. being one of 87 equal parts.

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noun

1. an eighty-seventh part, especially of one (1/87).

2. the eighty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

But her shoulder has continued to cause her pain and trouble her serve, and she arrived in Flushing this week ranked eighty-seventh in the world.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2019

In the eighty-seventh minute, Divock Origi, one of the heroes of Liverpool’s comeback against Barcelona, scored with a precise and powerful shot into the corner of the Tottenham goal.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2019

“I’ve tried to move through this experience as my truest self,” Patricia Arquette said on the red carpet last night, before the eighty-seventh annual Academy Awards.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 2015

Thanking a friend for felicitations, he said, "Mine is just an old story told eighty-six times and this year for the eighty-seventh time."

From Time Magazine Archive

By the eighty-seventh kick I was empty inside and a kind of solar wind arrived in my brain.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd