ninety-seven
[nahyn-tee-sev-uh n]
- a cardinal number, 90 plus 7.
- a symbol for this number, as 97 or XCVII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
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- amounting to 97 in number.
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Examples from the Web for ninety-seven
Contemporary Examples
Ninety-seven businesses were destroyed and 2,500 more were damaged.
In twenty-one years as a pitcher, Johnson gave up only ninety-seven home runs.
Historical Examples
The mother lived to the age of ninety-seven, but became totally blind.
Heroes of the TelegraphJ. Munro
There were 129 persons on board of whom ninety-seven were lost.
Are you one of the ninety-seven who fail, or the three who succeed?
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceHenry David Thoreau
"Ninety-seven and a half dollars," replied the secretary of the treasury.
A Pirate of PartsRichard Neville
The Ayes were only ninety-seven; the Noes two hundred and nine.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.Thomas Babington Macaulay