thirty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 35 or XXXV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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One of the group “plunged her tusks up to the gums in the body of my Land-Rover . . . again she charged, and the Land-Rover was carried backwards at high speed for thirty-five yards.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Polls show that only 33% of the American public has a favorable view of the party, which the Wall Street Journal says is its lowest rating in thirty-five years.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2025
“And you could have, like, a full meal for thirty-five cents.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
“Yes, identities behind those payments were obscured by pseudonymous addresses, long strings of between twenty-six and thirty-five characters,” Greenberg writes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
Next to him was Sean Carroll, thirty-five, and in the backseat were Edward McMellon, twenty-six, and Richard Murphy, twenty-six.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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