twenty-five

[ twen-tee-fahyv, twuhn- ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 5.
2. a symbol for this number, as 25 or XXV.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 25 in number.

Example Sentences

Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.

From The Daily Beast

I arrive at twelve-twenty-five and the secretaries are in a tizzy.

From The Daily Beast

Twenty-five years ago, Democrats faced the same challenges in reverse.

From The Daily Beast

He was twenty-five and in peak physical condition when he went in, but a flabby thirty when he came out.

From The Daily Beast

She looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand.

From The Daily Beast

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

From Project Gutenberg

Edwin Clayhanger invited me to go over the printing-works at half-past six, and it's twenty-five minutes to seven now.

From Project Gutenberg

It is true that the parents so provided think more of the twenty-five francs than they do of the foundling.

From Project Gutenberg

"Very well," said the other, handing him a check for twenty-five dollars as a retainer, and straightway left the office.

From Project Gutenberg

The guerrilla loss he reported at fifty-two left dead on the field and one hundred and twenty-five wounded.

From Project Gutenberg