thirty-one

[thur-tee-wuhn]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 30 plus 1.

2. a symbol for this number, as 31 or XXXI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 31 in number.

Example Sentences

By the time Frank Sinatra stepped into the studio to record “Strangers in the Night” on April 11, 1966, he had already been singing professionally for thirty-one years and recording since 1939.

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Five hundred and thirty-one days after her entry into the US, Luisa has not left detention.

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Since the beginning of 2017, employees have been wounded in shootings or pistol-whippings in at least thirty-one robberies; in at least seven other incidents, employees have been killed.

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I am eighty-eight years old at this writing, and I know that those four hundred and thirty-one plays were serving to extend Thornton Wilder’s life.

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Of the thirty-one consent letters that have been signed by governors, a third have come from red states such as Utah, Arizona, Iowa, and Indiana.

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