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

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

“How can you do that? Your allowance is only twenty-five cents. Twenty-four forty-three plus twenty-five cents makes only twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg