eighty-six
Example Sentences
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The hedge fund that had bought the company had already tried to eighty-six Freds’ rosy sautéed chicken livers over sourdough toast, proving once again that money can’t buy taste.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021
Doug, at eighty-six, is an example of a healthy man.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2019
Mesut Özil, an ethereal German playmaker for Arsenal, the team that I support, generated eighty-six hundred and twenty-nine.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
One of the positive by-products of the revolution has been soaring literacy rates—from thirty-seven per cent in 1976 to eighty-six per cent in 2016, according to UNESCO.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 10, 2019
Eight hundred and eighty-six dollars wont last long, but it will give me time to get my bearings.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
