ninety-second

American  

[nahyn-tee-sek-uhnd] / ˈnaɪn tiˈsɛk ənd /

adjective

1. next after the ninety-first; being the ordinal number for 92.

2. being one of 92 equal parts.

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noun

1. a ninety-second part, especially of one (1/92).

2. the ninety-second member of a series.

Example Sentences

He’d passed it ninety-one times and stopped on the ninety-second.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2019

Goodman told her, “I’m on my way to the ninety-second birthday of a patient whose knees I replaced eleven years ago.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

In minutes, Mount St. Helens went from being the fifth highest mountain in the state to the ninety-second!

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

He had attained his ninety-second year, when tidings of the surrender of Yorktown wounded the national pride of the old cavalier to the quick, and snapped the attenuated thread of his existence.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

Early in May, 1785, Vincent Perronet, the venerable Vicar of Shoreham, died in the ninety-second year of his age.

From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.