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 won her last Best Actress award in Ann Arbor, at the age of eighty-four, for “The Gin Game,” a two-person play that had won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
From The New Yorker • May 11, 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
Around the same time as the union drive, Palermo’s terminated eighty-four workers who could not produce documents confirming their residency status.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 9, 2018
Now she is eighty-four to my ninety-one, and with me still.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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