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
He’s sixty-four, an age few people reach at the time.
From Literature
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Like the number of squares on a chessboard—an irony that nevertheless cannot be pressed too far—he was sixty-four.
From Literature
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A total of sixty-four American planes hit four North Vietnamese patrol boat bases.
From Literature
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I count sixty-four pages left to read in Daddy’s notebook, which seems like a lot, but if I keep reading every day, I’ll be done in no time.
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