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

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thirty-five

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

“Yes, identities behind those payments were obscured by pseudonymous addresses, long strings of between twenty-six and thirty-five characters,” Greenberg writes.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022

He is the youngest of his father's thirty-five children, twenty-five legitimate, fifteen from his own mother, the second wife; he has no past of his own.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez