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forty-nine
[ fawr-tee-nahyn ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- a symbol for this number, as 49 or XLIX.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 49 in number.
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Example Sentences
Forty-nine percent of whites said it is widespread, while 48 percent said it was not widespread.
Forty-nine-year-old Elena brings a trembling hand to the bridge of her nose and makes a slashing movement across it.
Forty-nine were sentenced to death, but only one, Pvt. Eddie Slovik, was actually executed.
Forty-nine percent said the House would stay with the Republicans.
Forty-nine years ago today, 200,000 civil-rights advocates marched on Washington—peacefully.
She had just come to forty-nine, and was wondering if she might remind the fairy father of his duty, when the door opened.
In some regions it is as high as forty-nine or fifty inches and, in others, as low as thirty-six or thirty-seven inches.
You furnish right of way and enough money to give you forty-nine per cent of the stock in the company we'll form.
On a division the second reading was carried by a majority of one hundred and forty-nine against twenty.
On a division, the first clause was expunged by a majority of one hundred and forty-nine against eighty.
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