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 • Jun. 15, 2024
Three hundred sixty-four days had passed since the surgery.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2022
Two days ago, the Supreme Court ruled 8–0 that the president must turn over sixty-four tape recordings to the special prosecutor.
From Salon • Oct. 14, 2019
Earle turned sixty-four this year, and, though his vocals have always been suffused with a bit of psychic fatigue, it feels like he’s now the exact right age to give voice to Clark’s particular heartache.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
Like the number of squares on a chessboard—an irony that nevertheless cannot be pressed too far—he was sixty-four.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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