forty-fourth

[fawr-tee-fawrth, -fohrth]

adjective

1. next after the forty-third; being the ordinal number for 44.

2. being one of 44 equal parts.

noun

1. a forty-fourth part, especially of one (1/44).

2. the forty-fourth member of a series.

Example Sentences

We were the forty-fourth First Family and only the eleventh family to spend two full terms in the White House.

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Lexie had chosen the 100th Bomb Group, a restaurant out near the airport where the family went for very special occasions, the most recent being Mr. Richardson’s forty-fourth birthday.

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In this documentary, his forty-fourth feature, Wiseman visits a small Midwestern town where the winds of change meet the chill of death.

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Frederick Wiseman’s new film, “Monrovia, Indiana,” his forty-fourth feature, opens this Friday at Film Forum.

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Mike and Janet celebrated their forty-fourth wedding anniversary—Sanders got married on the same day, in 2010—at a steak house.

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