forty-four

[fawr-tee-fawr, -fohr]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 4.

2. a symbol for this number, as 44 or XLIV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 44 in number.

Example Sentences

The ship they were particularly anxious to get quickly into port was the Aleksandrovsk, a freighter carrying twenty-four hydrogen bomb warheads for intermediate-range missiles, along with forty-four tactical nuclear warheads.

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Across 18 years, the vessel “logged more than a million miles, the equivalent of forty-four trips around the world.”

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Thirty white people and forty-four black people die in the violence.

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One hundred and forty-four migrants left the ship, but 35 men from Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh stayed on, and the captain was ordered to take them back to international waters, according to the Italian government.

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The air temperature was forty-four degrees and it was three seventeen in the morning.

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