eighty-nine

[ey-tee-nahyn]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.

2. a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 89 in number.

Example Sentences

“China’s secrecy, deceptions and cover up allowed it to spread all over the world. One hundred and eighty-nine countries and China must be held fully accountable.”

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One hundred and eighty-nine Italians died of Covid-19 the previous day, but only seven Chinese; the number of deaths in the U.S. was still under 50.

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Wilson, who died on Thursday, at the age of eighty-nine, excelled at depicting the extraordinary.

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Two of the biggest troublemakers on set, according to the cast, were Kristovich and her sister Delores Churchill, age eighty-nine, who helped anchor the early scene of Haida women passing time in the longhouse.

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I thought about all of this again when I learned that the movie producer Robert Evans had died, this past Saturday, at age eighty-nine, in his home in Beverly Hills.

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