sixty-three
[siks-tee-three]
- a cardinal number, 60 plus 3.
- a symbol for this number, as 63 or LXIII.
- a set of this many persons or things.
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- amounting to 63 in number.
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Examples from the Web for sixty-three
Contemporary Examples
Sixty-three percent of those men admitted to multiple rapes.
Sixty-three televised games jam-packed into a scant two weeks.
Sixty-three out of every 1,000 girls between 15 and 19 years old becomes a mother.
Sixty-three percent of Democrats supported the requirement.
Sixty-three percent of violent fathers have sons who go on to offend.
Historical Examples
Sixty-three skeletons were found here, many of them in irons.
Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, MycenaeJennie Hall
The amount is one hundred and ten dollars and sixty-three cents.
Mary-'GustaJoseph C. Lincoln
At noon we had steamed sixty-three miles and sailed twenty-one.
The Last VoyageLady (Annie Allnutt) Brassey
Eighteen hundred and sixty-three was flood-tide on the Comstock.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, CompleteAlbert Bigelow Paine
It has sixty-three sections in various States and 6,000 members.