ninety-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 90 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 91 or XCI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Gas produces ninety-one percent of its energy, oil contributes nine percent and solar provides less than 0.01 percent.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
Chayote from Costa Rica is on the shelves at ninety-one cents a pound.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 18, 2019
Antonia Morales, who is ninety-one, lamented the destruction of an outdoor market that had been across the street for as long as anyone could remember.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2019
He’d passed it ninety-one times and stopped on the ninety-second.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2019
“It’s not serious. It’s the excitement! Who would have thought at ninety-one I’d be setting foot for the first time in the land of our ancestors. Mashallah, mashallah.”
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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