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 Soviet government knew by 1948 that the story of twenty-eight soldiers defending Moscow from dozens of German tanks in World War II did not, as they put it, “correspond to reality.”
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2022
It took Mary twenty-eight years to finally get to the tree first, and she celebrated with a little end-zone dance.
From Fox News • Dec. 14, 2021
Baby Chimp Rescue The chimpanzee rescue team now has twenty-eight chimps to look after, including an eight week-old baby.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020
The Department of Agriculture had allocated twenty-eight billion dollars in aid to farmers for lost exports—more than twice as much as taxpayers spent to bail out the auto industry a decade earlier.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
The Bushi family came from Kacanik, an Albanian town of twenty-eight thousand in the mountains of southern Kosovo, not far from the border with Macedonia.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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