thirty-sixth

[thur-tee-siksth]

adjective

1. next after the thirty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 36.

2. being one of 36 equal parts.

noun

1. a thirty-sixth part, especially of one (1/36).

2. the thirty-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

In the end, the crisis passed when, on the thirty-sixth ballot, the House voted Jefferson into office.

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On January 6, Nebraska became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment, making it illegal to manufacture, sell, or transport liquor.

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She was the thirty-sixth person in Chicago killed in gun violence that year, and the year was at that point just twenty-nine days old.

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“It may be delayed but it cannot be defeated, and we covet for Tennessee the signal honor of being the thirty-sixth and last State necessary to consummate this great reform.”

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It was Davies’s thirty-sixth European away match following Liverpool, and his third European Cup final.

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