twenty-three

[twen-tee-three, twuhn-]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 20 plus 3.

2. a symbol for this number, as 23 or XXIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 23 in number.

Example Sentences

Over the next four hours, fifty-five minutes, and twenty-three seconds, he orbited the world three times, at more than seventeen thousand miles per hour.

Read more on Literature

There were twenty-three crew members aboard, a few on deck but most still asleep in their bunks.

Read more on Literature

Counting the layover in Hong Kong, it took Mother twenty-three hours to fly from London to Sydney.

Read more on Literature

“However, taking twenty-two and twenty-three minutes to transition from a non-emergency activity — like eating a meal, writing a report, or using the restroom — to respond to a priority-one gunshot call is unacceptable.”

Read more on Seattle Times

Now I am a brain with twenty-three cameras attached to it sitting on a table in a laboratory.

Read more on Literature