twenty-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 27 or XXVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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And astonishingly, the spirit relative Greeley questioned had died exactly twenty-seven years ago.
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“Oh no. All twenty-seven of your followers might be disappointed,” Camille says.
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I kind of do, but the clock says it’s six-thirty-three, which means I only have twenty-seven minutes until the office opens.
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Depending on the species they can be as small as a half inch or as long as twenty-seven inches.
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After all, was he not a very rich man, still young, and in reasonably good health twenty-seven days out of every twenty-eight?
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