twenty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 24 or XXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The signing was less than twenty-four hours away.
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Professor Treebaun walked in a moment later, looking decidedly grumpier than usual at being called in so early to monitor a test he’d watched me fail less than twenty-four hours ago.
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I have less than twenty-four hours to compose the perfect apology.
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His ears had rung for twenty-four hours after the ten-minute pounding.
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The helicopter continued on to Kendra, where the smokestacks of a paper mill normally puffed gray clouds into the sky, twenty-four hours a day.
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