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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following eighty-four and preceding eighty-six.

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  • adjective being five more than eighty

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Examples

  • It was cool in the dark now—if you call eighty-five degrees cool.

    THE EXORSISTAH CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY 2008

  • It was cool in the dark now—if you call eighty-five degrees cool.

    THE EXORSISTAH CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY 2008

  • In brief, when I first met Susy, she was eighty-five years old and preparing to die.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • Arnuldo guided the Silver Cloud onto the 10 and across town at eighty-five smooth miles an hour.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • The developers succeeded in evicting the neighborhood people from their garden oasis—but two years later the same group of farmers planted a new farm on eighty-five acres outside the city limits.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • And because that will make the pain of death feel like the joys of eighty-five Christmases.

    Stories from the War Nathaniel Tower 2011

  • It took a while because her blouse seemed to have eighty-five buttons.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • Billy-Bob thought for a moment, then said, “Uh, about eighty-five cents.”

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • In all, the Allies pushing east would soon field eighty-five divisions, including five to eight newly organized French divisions being trained and the eight French divisions currently deployed.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • “You haven't experienced eighty-five Christmases.”

    Stories from the War Nathaniel Tower 2011

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