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
The list for Texas named two hundred and eighty-six priests, the list for New Jersey a hundred and eighty-eight priests.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
Nearly a million cubic yards of sediment had made the five-mile journey, resulting in the creation—or, to be more accurate, the re-creation—of a hundred and eighty-six paludal acres.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
“Weed Patch Hill at one thousand one hundred and eighty-six feet above sea level, in Brown County. Known as the Everest of Indiana.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
