thirty-five

[thur-tee-fahyv]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 30 plus 5.

2. a symbol for this number, as 35 or XXXV.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 35 in number.

Example Sentences

Polls show that only 33% of the American public has a favorable view of the party, which the Wall Street Journal says is its lowest rating in thirty-five years.

From Salon

"A shoe size? Isn’t thirty-five kind of big for a shoe size? Maybe it's a shoe size for giants!"

From Literature

“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 Literature

“And you could have, like, a full meal for thirty-five cents.”

From Los Angeles Times

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