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Wiktionary
- n. ordinal The ordinal form of number eighty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 81 of a sequence.
- n. fractional One of eighty-one equal parts of a whole.
Examples
“But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only “Alice.””
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR JANUARY 10TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
“But as she nears her eighty-first birthday, she knows that, to the world around her, she is and will always be only Alice.”
Alice I Have Been: Summary and book reviews of Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin.
“He died, Bryson tells us, "contented and rich, at his winter home on Pass-Grille Key, Florida, just shy of his eighty-first birthday in 1934.”
“Today, on the eighty-first birthday of Martin Luther King, I\'m thinking about my early years, shaped in Florida, Georgia and Texas throughout a period of racial upheaval.”
Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then
“Today, on the eighty-first birthday of Martin Luther King, I'm thinking about my early years, shaped in Florida, Georgia and Texas throughout a period of racial upheaval.”
The Huffington Post: Lea Lane: On MLK's Birthday: Racism Now, Remembering Racism Then
“Mom had suffered for years with emphysema and then, a few weeks after her eighty-first birthday, she caught a cold that quickly turned into pneumonia.”
“And being about to mark my eighty-first birthday gives me a shorter time to participate but, arguably, a heightened motivation.”
William Fisher: A Simpleton Tries to Understand the Health Care Debate
““It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me””
A homosexual priest appeals to Rowan Williams for justification « Anglican Samizdat
“At the two hundred and eighty-first step, there was another door.”
“BTW my all time favorite first sentence is "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”
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