sixty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 64 or LXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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One hundred sixty-four years later, I stood alongside representatives of the very same people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
Three hundred sixty-four days had passed since the surgery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
Two days ago, the Supreme Court ruled 8–0 that the president must turn over sixty-four tape recordings to the special prosecutor.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2019
Bolsonaro is sixty-four, tall and slim, with sharply parted dark hair and heroically bushy eyebrows.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
The jefe lets them reboard the boxcar and tells them to get off the train before San Luis Potosf, where sixty-four railroad security officers guard the station.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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