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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One of the group “plunged her tusks up to the gums in the body of my Land-Rover . . . again she charged, and the Land-Rover was carried backwards at high speed for thirty-five yards.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
“And you could have, like, a full meal for thirty-five cents.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Staniel Cay is in the Exumas, an archipelago of hundreds of cays and islands in the outer Bahamas, beginning about thirty-five miles southeast of Nassau.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2023
Only plebeians could attend the Plebian Assembly, organized into thirty-five regional tribes with a single vote each.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“The thing is, I’m having a cash-flow problem and I’ll have to scramble to find even thirty-five dollars. I’m a stockbroker and I work from home and I’m a bit overextended right now.”
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
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