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
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
"Car number four cost eighty-six pounds—a real wreck that was—and sold for six hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifty."
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
