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sixty-five

[ siks-tee-fahyv ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 60 plus 5.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 65 or LXV.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 65 in number.

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Example Sentences

“Sixty-five years altogether,” she pointed out with a laugh.

Sixty-five percent of independents and 51 percent of non-Tea Party Republicans also prefer compromise.

They may be any age up to sixty or even sixty-five, but when they are black and naked they all look alike.

Sixty-five percent support the law or take a “wait and see” approach.

Sixty-five percent of Americans say that they “like France,” according to an extensive survey published Feb. 22 in France.

Fujiyama, the noted volcano of Japan, is twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-five feet high.

Madame Coquereau, in spite of her sixty-five years trudged along with springing step.

On nearly all railways retirement is optional at sixty and compulsory at sixty-five.

One hundred and sixty-five, out of twelve thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine who actually voted.

So strong was this feeling that the Bill was carried only by sixty-five to forty-eight.

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