twenty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 23 or XXIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Our eldest sister, Mrs. Underhill, was twenty-three years of age when I was home.
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She flew there, twenty-three feet up in the sky, the wind buoying her, her feet pointed behind.
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Boomer Malone began counting walnuts: “...twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four...”
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Two minutes and twenty-three seconds later, we’re back in the office, out of breath, but with my workbook and Don McAndrews’s business card.
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Over the next four hours, fifty-five minutes, and twenty-three seconds, he orbited the world three times, at more than seventeen thousand miles per hour.
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