eighty-eight
a cardinal number, 80 plus 8.
a symbol for this number, as 88 or LXXXVIII.
a set of this many persons or things.
Slang. the keys of a piano or the piano itself: tickle the old eighty-eight.
amounting to 88 in number.
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How to use eighty-eight in a sentence
“I will feel some justice has been done,” said White, now eighty-eight.
"eighty-eight is a pretty good year," Kurland told me of his age before he died.
Bob Kurland, the First Player to Dunk, Was a Pioneer for Big Men | Kevin Fixler | March 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTeighty-eight years old this month, he remains without equal as a strategic thinker.
A hundred and eighty-eight were for adhering to the vote of the eleventh of December.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayOn a division, the resolutions were carried by a majority of two hundred and eighty-eight against two hundred and eight.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
This amendment was carried by a majority of one hundred and eighty-eight against one hundred and sixty-seven.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanTwo hundred and eighty-eight grams of the crude material were then extracted several times with 50 per cent.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron) | William Anderson SymeHe wrote six hundred pages and tore up all but two hundred and eighty-eight.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine
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