thirty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 38 or XXXVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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And pretty soon everybody was chanting, “...thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight...”
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As a practical matter, at thirty-eight I now had to raise our daughters on my own.
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Lemnitzer set up thirty-eight charts on easels and brought the president up to speed.
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My time log tells me that it will technically be tomorrow in two hours, thirty-seven minutes, and thirty-eight seconds.
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George Dasch was thirty-eight years old and wanted to do something more, something bigger.
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