ninety-second

[ nahyn-tee-sek-uhnd ]

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

  2. being one of 92 equal parts.

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

  2. the ninety-second member of a series.

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How to use ninety-second in a sentence

  • In his ninety-second year, he said to the writer, that for every page of any other reading he was sure he read ten of the Bible.

    George Muller of Bristol | Arthur T. Pierson
  • He put spurs to his horse and galloped to the spot where the ninety-second were lying behind a ditch bordering the road.

    One of the 28th | G. A. Henty
  • The enemy crossed a hedge within forty yards of the ninety-second, and delivered their fire.

    One of the 28th | G. A. Henty
  • He suffered the misfortune of going blind, and died at Richmond in 1890, in the ninety-second year of his age.

    The Old Pike | Thomas B. Searight
  • In the first week of April of the following year, when he was approaching his ninety-second birthday, the first lesson took place.

    Garcia the Centenarian And His Times | M. Sterling Mackinlay