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
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
In 1858, forty-five crevasses opened up in Louisiana’s levees; in 1874, forty-three; in 1882, two hundred and eighty-four.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
The spaceship was now at eighty-four thousand feet—higher than he’d ever been.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
"Eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-four," Anastasia was saying softly as she brushed.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
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