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
She was eighty-four, after all, a year older than Eddie, and her whole life now was caring for him.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
When a tech showed Shanahan a polymer widget that she said could save the Navy four hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars, his eyes lit up.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 26, 2018
The spaceship was now at eighty-four thousand feet—higher than he’d ever been.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
He came to their houses twice a month to collect one dollar and sixty-eight cents and write down on a little yellow card both the date and their eighty-four cents a week payment.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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