thirty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 35 or XXXV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Mr Badenoch said: "The source of that false hope to Kevin Allen, thirty five years after his brother went missing, was ultimately the false allegations of this defendant, Carl Beech."
From BBC • May 14, 2019
Fourteen dollars an ounce x thirty five ounces is $490, not $4900.
From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2018
Among college graduates, fifty-eight per cent express a favorable opinion of him, and thirty five per cent a negative opinion.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2015
Constitution says of the presidency, “neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years.”
From Time • Aug. 24, 2015
“Naturally there are a few smashups every day. The speed limit is eighteen miles in the city, but everybody goes thirty to thirty five, or forty, even in the down-town section.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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