eighty-seventh

[ey-tee-sev-uhnth]

adjective

1. next after the eighty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 87.

2. being one of 87 equal parts.

noun

1. an eighty-seventh part, especially of one (1/87).

2. the eighty-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

To make leaving easier, Anthony promised to come back for Stanton’s eighty-seventh birthday in November.

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But her shoulder has continued to cause her pain and trouble her serve, and she arrived in Flushing this week ranked eighty-seventh in the world.

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The biggest story coming out of the United States’ 13-0 rout of Thailand in its first game of the World Cup was not the beautiful shot that Alex Morgan curled past the Thai keeper in the eighty-seventh minute, after controlling a high-bouncing ball, or Tobin Heath’s technical brilliance as she blew by the defense, or the way Carli Lloyd threaded the ball between two Thai players and high into the corner of the net.

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In the eighty-seventh minute, Divock Origi, one of the heroes of Liverpool’s comeback against Barcelona, scored with a precise and powerful shot into the corner of the Tottenham goal.

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The two of them had grown up in the same apartment building over by Eighty-Seventh Avenue, a two-story, tan-stucco building with a couple of windblown Monterey pines in front.

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