forty-four

[ fawr-tee-fawr, -fohr ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 4.
2. a symbol for this number, as 44 or XLIV.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 44 in number.

Example Sentences

Thirty white people and forty-four black people die in the violence.

From Literature

One hundred and forty-four migrants left the ship, but 35 men from Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh stayed on, and the captain was ordered to take them back to international waters, according to the Italian government.

From New York Times

The air temperature was forty-four degrees and it was three seventeen in the morning.

From New York Times

One hundred and forty-four people died that day.

From New York Times

At forty-four thousand dollars a pound, it is the most expensive ingredient in the world of perfume.

From Salon