sixty-eight

American  

[sik-stee-eyt] / ˈsɪk stiˈeɪt /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 8.

2. a symbol for this number, as 68 or LXVIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 68 in number.

Example Sentences

Gary Cunningham became a fishing buddy, working Crowley Lake for trout at sixty-eight hundred feet in the Eastern Sierra, and West hit the same spot with Johnson other times.

From Los Angeles Times

I took Gran’s initial resting heart rate, counting a total of thirty-four beats for thirty seconds, and scribbled sixty-eight in my notebook.

From Literature

The spectator’s benches were packed tighter than ever on day sixty-eight, when Daniel Ellsberg finally took the stand.

From Literature

All throughout sixty-eight pages I Scanned the book review to find What to read this pandemic summer.

From New York Times

A week, a mere seven days, a paltry one hundred sixty-eight hours remained till their deadline.

From Literature