twenty-sixth

[twen-tee-siksth, twuhn-]

adjective

1. next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.

2. being one of 26 equal parts.

noun

1. a twenty-sixth part, especially of one (1/26).

2. the twenty-sixth member of a series.

Example Sentences

If she gave me a penny on January first and kept doubling it, on January twenty-sixth she would give me $335,544.

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His fingernails caked in soil, Fadi was about to call it quits when the earth loosened around a small tin box in their twenty-sixth pit.

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But then on the twenty-sixth of April last, Aunt Sponge—the late Aunt Sponge, I mean—happened to glance up at the ceiling, and she spotted her.

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She was the second Democrat in districts won by Trump to support the investigation, but only the hundred and twenty-sixth member of Congress as a whole.

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The day of the meeting arrived, and we were led into Trump’s office, on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower, by his personal assistant, an elegant woman named Norma Foerderer.

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