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
After retiring, in 2013, he returned to Richland to be near his mother, who is ninety-one.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
When my father died, at ninety-one, in early 2009, slipping away when none of us happened to be visiting, many hundreds of bottles remained in his cellar.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
Pierce was about nineteen years old when she attended the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, and she was ninety-one when she became eligible to vote for the first time.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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