eightieth

Examples

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• True enough, Hubert Humphrey and the politics he symbolized might seem out of place in the Capitol rooms he loved so well on this, his eightieth birthday.

  Academic text (1992)

• It was her eightieth birthday, and she was throwing herself a party, not out of some misguided sense of hubris, but because she loved life and wanted to celebrate hers surrounded by people who meant a lot to her.

  Fiction book (1997)

• In August 1994, Houser passed away at his home shortly after his eightieth birthday.

  Academic text (2004)

• I may be in my eightieth year, but I'm still trying to explore and understand my own psyche.

  Academic text (2001)

• The eightieth anniversary of the May Fourth Movement and the tenth anniversary of Tiananmen Square passed largely without incident.

  Academic text (2002)

• Humphrey's life and times is occasioned by the eightieth anniversary of his birth.

  Academic text (1992)

• For Mother's eightieth birthday, I ordered a cake covered with pink and purple sugar-spun roses.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Thus, in 1971, Pope Paul VI wrote Octogesimo adveniens ("On the Eightieth Year").

  Academic text (2007)

• In 1960, she performed the Mozart concerto K. 467 with the Juilliard Orchestra to celebrate her eightieth birthday.

  Academic text (1996)

• Tivvie visited her parents to celebrate her mother's eightieth birthday, and she felt like she'd made the right decision.

Synonyms

8

80th

vseightieth

12 1.0

In the eightieth place in a list

is written in words rather than using digits to show the same position

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