eighty-ninth

[ ey-tee-nahynth ]

adjective

1. next after the eighty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 89.
2. being one of 89 equal parts.

noun

1. an eighty-ninth part, especially of one (1/89).
2. the eighty-ninth member of a series.

Example Sentences

The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.

From The Daily Beast

Her sister, in her eighty-ninth year, equally unfaded in her great intellectual gifts, still lingers for a while on the scene.

From Project Gutenberg

Several years ago Eighty-ninth Street was about as far uptown as one could secure fair rewards for diligent begging.

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Dear old Grandma died at Aunt Betsey's in her eighty-ninth year,–a good woman, and much beloved by her children.

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At ten o'clock next morning, he had an unusual visitor at his flat in West Eighty-ninth Street.

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Mrs. Lawrence lived well into the nineteenth century, dying in 1845, in her eighty-ninth year.

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