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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following sixty-seven and preceding sixty-nine.

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  • adjective being eight more than sixty

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Examples

  • That was a lot of money when all you had to your name was sixty-eight quarters, four dimes, three nickels, and eight pennies.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • That was a lot of money when all you had to your name was sixty-eight quarters, four dimes, three nickels, and eight pennies.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • That was a lot of money when all you had to your name was sixty-eight quarters, four dimes, three nickels, and eight pennies.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • Democrats picked up thirty-eight seats in Congress, so that in 1965 we convened holding a two-thirds majority in the House and a staggering margin of sixty-eight to thirty-two in the Senate.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Democrats picked up thirty-eight seats in Congress, so that in 1965 we convened holding a two-thirds majority in the House and a staggering margin of sixty-eight to thirty-two in the Senate.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Democrats picked up thirty-eight seats in Congress, so that in 1965 we convened holding a two-thirds majority in the House and a staggering margin of sixty-eight to thirty-two in the Senate.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • In the 2006–2007 Supreme Court term properly referred to as October Term 2006 because of the month and year it began, there were twenty-four 5–4 decisions out of sixty-eight cases resolved by the Court that year.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • In the distance a machine stopped and deposited a woman whose utmost years might have been guessed as sixty, who walked across the lawn as lightly as a well-cared-for woman of forty, and whose actual calendar age was sixty-eight.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • Yet, as she returned, the high pose of head, the level-lidded gaze of her long brown eyes under royal arches of eyebrows, the softly set lines of her small mouth that fairly sang sweetness of kisses after sixty-eight years — all made her the very picture of a chiefess of old Hawaii full-bursting through her ampleness of haole blood.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • You go around looking for to dig out ten million dollars with a second-hand spade you call buy for sixty-eight cents.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

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