forty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 44 or XLIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Across 18 years, the vessel “logged more than a million miles, the equivalent of forty-four trips around the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
The air temperature was forty-four degrees and it was three seventeen in the morning.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
At forty-four thousand dollars a pound, it is the most expensive ingredient in the world of perfume.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022
The remains of the Italian patriot, poet and scholar, Ugo Foscolo, were exhumed at Chiswick churchyard, England, after forty-four years of interment.
From Scientific American • Oct. 1, 2021
I kissed my mother, forty-four years old, a born survivor.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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