twenty-seven

[ twen-tee-sev-uhn, twuhn- ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.
2. a symbol for this number, as 27 or XXVII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 27 in number.

Example Sentences

Twenty-seven-year-old George Leslie arrived in New York City in 1869, a successful architect.

From The Daily Beast

Twenty-seven percent of African-Americans said they would not report a crime to the police, compared to 54 percent of Hispanics.

From The Daily Beast

Twenty-seven-year-old software engineer Pavlo Lykhoviy, who is in the pro-Maidan camp, mentions a pipeline explosion last weekend.

From The Daily Beast

We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven.

From The Daily Beast

Twenty-seven of the 43 defendants, including all but one of the Americans, were tried in absentia.

From The Daily Beast

But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.

From Project Gutenberg

Given in Madrid, November twenty-seven, one thousand six hundred and twenty-three.

From Project Gutenberg

The reported duty of Watt's Herland engine was twenty-seven millions; and if the trial was with his ordinary bushel of 112 lbs.

From Project Gutenberg

Watt had claimed such an engine in his patent twenty-seven years before, but had failed to carry it into practice.

From Project Gutenberg

The grandfather of Lady Selina Shirley had twenty-seven children, her father being the second son.

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