thirty-five

American  

[thur-tee-fahyv] / ˈθɜr tiˈfaɪv /

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.

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adjective

1. amounting to 35 in number.

Example Sentences

“They thought they might be required to pay for parking, which was a problem as they only had thirty-five cents between them,” writes Mr. Pierce, “so instead they parked across the street.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Father is thirty-five years now, so he is an old man.

From Literature

Now, at the age of thirty-five, he’d been handed this new piece of information about himself—and his first reaction to it was to wish he hadn’t been given it.

From Literature

The newspaper cost thirty-five cents a week, and most people threw in an extra nickel or dime.

From Literature

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