twenty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 29 or XXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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In his opening statement, Chauvin’s attorney said the evidence in this case is "far greater than nine minutes and twenty nine seconds" that Chauvin presses his knee to Floyd’s neck.
From Fox News • Mar. 29, 2021
"One hundred and twenty nine million people with pre-existing conditions?" scoffed Gingrey.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2011
And then it began to rain, and it kept on raining until the water went twenty nine feet over the highest mountain.
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Ingersoll, Robert Green
"In the space of one hundred and twenty nine years, the inquisition deprived Spain of three millions of inhabitants."
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
The twenty nine, we were in fortie four degrees.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard
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