twenty-eight

American  

[twen-tee-eyt, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈeɪt, ˈtwʌn- /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 8.

2. a symbol for this number, as 28 or XXVIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 28 in number.

Example Sentences

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

First, since 2014, twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have raised their state-level minimum wage above the federal level, as have forty-five cities.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 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

When Elizebeth and her team stacked up the twenty-eight Enigma messages they had in December 1942, they discovered that the first column had far more O’s in it than anything else.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield