fifty-six

[fif-tee-siks]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 50 plus 6.

2. a symbol for this number, as 56 or LVI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 56 in number.

Example Sentences

Biden has the power to bring the teaching of the Church to life and offer redemption to the forty people on the federal death row, fifty-six percent of whom are people of color.

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“He’s being such a baby! Zayd bumped into me when I was Hula-Hooping. And, Mamoo, I was starting to get close to breaking the Guinness World Record. I was at fifty-six minutes!”

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If he had only wounded Lincoln, then the president, even at fifty-six years old, would have been a worthy opponent.

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One hundred fifty-six years ago Wednesday, a theater full of people laughed the most consequential laugh in American history.

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White first recruited a former New Mexico sheriff, who, at fifty-six, became the oldest member of the team.

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