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sixty-two

[ siks-tee-too ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 2.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 62 or LXII.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 62 in number.

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Example Sentences

He made a successful second marriage before alcohol and cigarettes killed him at sixty-two.

Sixty-two percent of men admit to having sexually harassed women.

At the age of sixty-two I inoculated him, and was very careful in selecting matter in its most active state.

Knit eighteen plain stitches, run a piece of cotton through the remaining sixty-two stitches.

We repeat here that, what with men and women, the Captain had sixty-two combatants around him.

The amendment was lost by a majority of two hundred and thirty-four against two hundred and sixty-two.

Sixty-two dollars and some miserable change, said OLeary cheerfully, is all that keeps us among the high rollers.

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