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
Ed was eighty-four; he had worked on nuclear-power-plants, and his work had taken him all over the world—he had lived in Indonesia, China, and Mexico.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018
The spaceship was now at eighty-four thousand feet—higher than he’d ever been.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
He lives with his wife, she is eighty-four.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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