sixty-eight

American  

[sik-stee-eyt] / ˈsɪk stiˈeɪt /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 8.

2. a symbol for this number, as 68 or LXVIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 68 in number.

Example Sentences

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sixty-eight

Nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by as much as sixty-seven percent, while particulate matter declined by up to sixty-eight percent compared with standard diesel fuel.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026

Gary Cunningham became a fishing buddy, working Crowley Lake for trout at sixty-eight hundred feet in the Eastern Sierra, and West hit the same spot with Johnson other times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

TRY IT : : 1.185 Write as a decimal: thirteen and sixty-eight thousandths.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020

This book lightly updates fifty-five of the earlier recipes and introduces sixty-eight more, their flavors updated for more modern palates and diets—it includes two dozen gluten-free options—all truly exceptional.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019

Helen said she was sixty-eight years old, old enough to be my mother, but Mrs. Croft insisted that Helen and I speak to each other downstairs, in the parlor.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri