sixty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 60 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 61 or LXI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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He attempted a response between hops sixty-one and sixty-five but found that the hare’s rising and falling was making conversation difficult.
From Literature
The fourteen hundred volunteers ranged in age from sixteen to sixty-one.
From Literature
After some back and forth over how Google would be able to provide information without violating its privacy policy, Google produced a spreadsheet of sixty-one searches made by eight accounts.
From Seattle Times
Looking back on his career just before his death in 1915, Comstock boasted of having “convicted persons enough to fill a passenger train of sixty-one coaches,” and having “destroyed 160 tons of obscene literature.”
From Los Angeles Times
Fischer claimed that at sixty-one he was the oldest prisoner in the center and therefore deserved more deference.
From Literature
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