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
Chances are that it’s in the Santa Monica Mountains national park, eighty-six per cent of which burned in the Woolsey Fire.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 11, 2019
Doug, at eighty-six, is an example of a healthy man.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2019
A man named Richard A. Brown had held the title of Queens D.A. for about as long as they had been alive; now, at age eighty-six, he was not expected to run again.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 4, 2019
Two weeks later, Stanton’s father died at age eighty-six.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
