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
Winnegrad, who is eighty-one, lives in Montclair, New Jersey, and speaks with a Brooklyn accent.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
Even in the ancient area of rushing the football, often forgotten in this era, Orgeron wound up summarizing, “Two hundred eighty-one yards rushing for Alabama, 12 yards rushing for us.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2018
“Where did they say we could pick the eighty-one back up again?”
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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