fifty-eight
[fif-tee-eyt]
- a cardinal number, 50 plus 8.
- a symbol for this number, as 58 or LVIII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
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- amounting to 58 in number.
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Examples from the Web for fifty-eight
Contemporary Examples of fifty-eight
Fifty-eight children took part in a trial into polio and diptheria vaccines in December 1960.
Irish Care Home Scandal Grows As Children Revealed To Be Used As Vaccine Guinea PigsTom Sykes
June 10, 2014
Corrections officers commit suicide at alarmingly high rates and their average life expectancy is fifty-eight years.
Fifty-eight percent of us want to expand the fence on the Mexican border.
Historical Examples of fifty-eight
It now includes fifty-eight different countries and has 500,000 members.
The aisle p. 133(which I do not remember at Belfast) is fifty-eight by forty-five.
A Tour in IrelandArthur Young
It has only one chamber, in which there sit at present fifty-eight members.
Impressions of South AfricaJames Bryce
He lived on to fifty-eight years of age, in eminent bachelorhood.
The Wedding RingT. De Witt Talmage
The amendment was defeated by a vote of seventy-three to fifty-eight.