eighty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 81 or LXXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Which led him to Cary Grant, which led him to Michael Jackson, which led him back to the point that even Cary Grant wouldn’t have looked good in a bathing suit at age eighty-one.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024
In Canada, “the toll was $100 million, and eighty-one dead.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020
It became the most award-winning franchise in television history, with eighty-one Emmys.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019
In the course of the 2016 Presidential election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spent eighty-one million dollars on Facebook ads.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019
The temperature in Des Moines was eighty-one degrees, and the time was five thirty-five, and “All you on the road, drive extra careful now on this fine Fourth of July.”
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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