thirty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 34 or XXXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Buck computed Richard the Third to have fallen at the age of thirty four or five; but, by Cox's account, he could not be more than thirty two.
From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace
Soon it will begin to recede, at the rate of twenty–eight millions of miles a year, until it is two hundred and thirty four millions of miles away from us.
From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy
The thirty four confirmations would have been only so many repetitions of their absurdity, so many new links in the chain, and so many invalidations of their right.
From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Morley, Henry
If he has one vote at twenty, he should have two at thirty, four at forty, ten at fifty.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
From that city it was a home run of one hundred and thirty four miles to New Orleans.
From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Boyton, Paul
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