ninety-six

[nahyn-tee-siks]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 90 plus 6.

2. a symbol for this number, as 96 or XCVI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 96 in number.

Example Sentences

Even with the Interzonal games, the finished tome was only ninety-six pages.

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All ninety-six lines home, I practice a question for Deb in my head.

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Tear this note across twelve times and scatter the four thousand and ninety-six pieces to the wind!

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His father and his father’s father lived to be ninety-six because of a glass of vino a day, he says.

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By the height of the day, temperatures would soar to ninety-six degrees—fourteen degrees above normal.

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