sixty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 68 or LXVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Nitrogen oxide emissions dropped by as much as sixty-seven percent, while particulate matter declined by up to sixty-eight percent compared with standard diesel fuel.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
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 • Mar. 3, 2024
TRY IT : : 1.185 Write as a decimal: thirteen and sixty-eight thousandths.
From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020
At the end of hour one hundred and sixty-eight, you can watch Wilmot ceremoniously lift his headset off his head, squint, and break into a smile.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
Sheryl and I push sixty-eight candles into creamy icing, packing them in tight.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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