twenty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 28 or XXVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Soviet government knew by 1948 that the story of twenty-eight soldiers defending Moscow from dozens of German tanks in World War II did not, as they put it, “correspond to reality.”
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2022
It took Mary twenty-eight years to finally get to the tree first, and she celebrated with a little end-zone dance.
From Fox News ● Dec. 14, 2021
Baby Chimp Rescue The chimpanzee rescue team now has twenty-eight chimps to look after, including an eight week-old baby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2020
A good-looking Army officer with a French background, he was twenty-eight when, in 1841, he eloped with Jessie, the pretty, super-bright, and ambitious seventeen-year-old daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, of Missouri.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
The law applied only to slaves over age twenty-eight, so Ona was exempt.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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