sixty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 65 or LXV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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It is estimated that during each of the famine years, some sixty-five pounds of cabbage was consumed per person as it was all they had.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2024
A multidisciplinary team of ETH Zurich researchers developed a method of using an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-stone wall that is six metres high and sixty-five metres long.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2023
“Three hundred sixty-five days so he could, hopefully, be rehabilitated in some way, shape or form, so he wouldn’t hurt other people.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
Now I know I have to watch what I eat, For a chance just to reach sixty-five.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
At night the temperature is bitter cold, as much as two hundred degrees below zero, but at noontime near the equator it can reach a comfortable sixty-five degrees.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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