twenty-eight
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 8.
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a symbol for this number, as 28 or XXVIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The next day, officials reversed themselves and said that they’d made an error: the actual number was a hundred twenty eight.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2014
The second issue to consider is that all twenty eight participants had normal vaginal flora.
From Scientific American • Feb. 25, 2012
One hundred and twenty eight men entered the singles competition at the 2011 United States Open, and all but one–Novak Djokovic–leave New York as a loser.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2011
The Chausi Pensioners, foure hundred and fourtie, at thirtie aspers, twenty eight thousand, nine hundred and eight pounds.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
The books printed before the year 1500 amount to three hundred and twenty eight, of which two hundred and forty bear dates; the most ancient is of 1468.
From Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers by Licquet, Théodore
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