eighty-nine
八十九,八九不离十,八九,八九十年代
Definitions
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- : a cardinal number, 80 plus 9.
- : a symbol for this number, as 89 or LXXXIX.
- : a set of this many persons or things.
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- : amounting to 89 in number.
Examples
This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.
The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
Denied parole nine straight times, he insists he is innocent of the crime for which he was convicted.
If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY Betamax and an eight-track operating system.
It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred thousand inhabitants.
In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.
Dinner occurred in the middle of the day, and about nine in the evening was an informal but copious supper.
He had been wont to do this on other occasions, because the enemy with nine ships was within sight of the fort.
His holy book says: There is more joy over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just men.