eighty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 80 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 81 or LXXXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Which led him to Cary Grant, which led him to Michael Jackson, which led him back to the point that even Cary Grant wouldn’t have looked good in a bathing suit at age eighty-one.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2024
In Canada, “the toll was $100 million, and eighty-one dead.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2020
At mile eighty-one of the New York State Thruway, the gray silhouettes of the Catskills come into view, perfectly framed and proportioned.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019
The next day, the same plane, with a hundred and eighty-one passengers and a new crew, took off from Jakarta.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019
She was eighty-one, but none of us were ready for her to go.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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