eighty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 84 or LXXXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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You would drive me home and say goodbye with three kisses, all the time, and texted me when you were eighty-four.
From Fox News ● Jan. 29, 2022
So, according to Chase.com, we have eighty-four thousand dollars in savings—if you count the eighty thousand dollars I’m getting from Nana whenever she dies.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Berry, who is now eighty-four, does not own a computer or a cell phone, and his landline is not connected to an answering machine.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 14, 2019
The spaceship was now at eighty-four thousand feet—higher than he’d ever been.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
“But I talked the car sales dude down to eighty-four hundred dollars from ten thousand, so in a way I actually saved money. You know what the color’s called?”
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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