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[ UK /ˈeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- one of four playing cards in a deck with eight pips on the face
- the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
ADJECTIVE
- being one more than seven
How To Use eight In A Sentence
- What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
- Assuming that 15 pound breaking strain line is used, an angler using monofilament might have to use a six or eight ounce sinker and use a 20 lb class rod to carry that sinker weight.
- Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
- It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
- As for leisure activities, a few old weights and a sledgehammer is the gym. CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2009
- The AWPL, however, features eight-minute quarters providing 32 total minutes of game play and a little more lactic build-up, leg burn, and lung fatigue for the athletes.
- Eight children were crammed into the back of the car.
- Well, my boy Joey is eight years old, and he's a foul-mouthed dumb-ass little loser just like his father.
- King was eight years old when he was slapped by a white woman in a downtown Atlanta department store and insulted with a racial slur.
- Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01