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
There are twenty nine in the Breast, viz. twenty four Ribs, two Clavicles or Channel-Bones and commonly three Bones in the Sternum.
From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel
We have a perigee of six hundred twenty five miles and an apogee of twenty nine hundred miles, and ... oh, my word; this is a tough break!
From If at First You Don't... by Brudy, John
Of all my Money there now remaind for the ensuing year but two hundred and twenty nine dollars and forty five cents.
From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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