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eighty-seven
[ ey-tee-sev-uhn ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 80 plus 7.
- a symbol for this number, as 87 or LXXXVII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
- amounting to 87 in number.
eighty-seven
noun
- cricket a score traditionally regarded as being unlucky
Word History and Origins
Origin of eighty-seven1
Example Sentences
Eighty-seven percent of New Yorkers stopped are black or Latino.
Eighty-seven percent said yep, the weekend golfer and father of two sure is.
In America, when asked eighty-seven percent of the public favored building more wind farms.
The duty of this engine, in the month of April this year, equalled eighty-seven millions.
Whilst writing the final words of this chapter the news reaches me of the death of Mr. Mills, at the fine old age of eighty-seven.
On a division, the amendment to reject the bill was carried by a majority of one hundred and eighty-seven against eighty-five.
On a division, the motion was negatived by two hundred and eighty-seven against forty-nine.
When we got back to the raft and he come to count up he found he had collected eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
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