eighty-six
Example Sentences
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The hedge fund that had bought the company had already tried to eighty-six Freds’ rosy sautéed chicken livers over sourdough toast, proving once again that money can’t buy taste.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021
Doug, at eighty-six, is an example of a healthy man.
From Salon • Sep. 15, 2019
My mother died in 1990, at the age of eighty-six.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2019
To match the pace of land loss, the state would have to churn out a hundred and eighty-six acres every nine days.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019
Eve Thurmann, who was eighty-six, stalled out on Piersall Road in her ’36 Buick, then showed up at Petersen’s with mud caked on her knees; she’d walked two miles into town.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
