eighty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.
From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020
Maar, who was born Henriette Theodora Markovitch, in 1907, and lived to be eighty-nine, was several sorts of artist in the decade or less that her photography had free rein.
From The New Yorker • May 21, 2019
In hospice care with sinus cancer, he died in June, at eighty-nine, before his son could carry him to the painted bed.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2018
On the boat of eighty-nine runners heading to Antarctica she mingled with her fellow explorers.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2018
The baseball team was in the middle of a winning streak where he’d pitched two no hitters and his fastball was coming in consistently at eighty-nine mph.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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