eighty

[ UK /ˈe‍ɪti/ ]
[ US /ˈeɪti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being ten more than seventy
NOUN
  1. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Get Started For Free Linguix pencil

How To Use eighty In A Sentence

  • 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
  • At the beginning of the war, the Nationalist forces had eighty thousand men. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
  • My grandfather was eighty when he died and was gathered to his fathers.
  • One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
  • He was eighty years old and in a coma when his horse won the Hambletonian Stakes, the supreme prize. Celebrities
  • The man was never as much of a sucker for a hook as Elton John was, but throughout 'The Soul Cages', Sting defiantly resists hummability as if a mere catchy pop chorus were too frivolous for such weighty content. The Soul Cages
  • Eighty-four per cent of the funding will take the form of military aid.
  • There were weighty arguments against this theory, in particular the fact that people with great muscular strength and a welldeveloped panniculus adiposus were often attacked by the disease; and also that European crews, on a diet containing sufficient protein and fat, were not immune, even when they were given virtually no rice at all. Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture
  • During both the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War, the B - 52's internal stowage of eighty-four 500-pound bombs made it a formidable offensive weapon.
  • Instead, there is always freshness and a delight in storytelling all too often absent from weighty academic history.
View all
This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy