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
In 2016, the last time he ran for Congress, O’Rourke won eighty-six per cent of the vote.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 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
When he agrees, Uncle Cent finds him a job in Dordrecht, a town eighty-six miles from Pa and Ma in Etten and, even better for Vincent, only about thirty miles from Theo in The Hague.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
