eighty-nine

American  

[ey-tee-nahyn] / ˈeɪ tiˈnaɪn /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.

2. a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 89 in number.

Example Sentences

Write nine billion, two hundred forty-six million, seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty-nine as a whole number using digits.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

Not even the death of her husband—also an avid daily runner—a few years ago, when he was eighty-nine, slowed her down.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 30, 2019

Maar, who was born Henriette Theodora Markovitch, in 1907, and lived to be eighty-nine, was several sorts of artist in the decade or less that her photography had free rein.

From The New Yorker • May 21, 2019

Jenkins had stopped doing this late last year, after the N.F.L. committed eighty-nine million dollars toward racial-justice causes.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

Last seen in October 1911, it was finally tracked down in 2000 after being missing for eighty-nine years.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson