Used in a Sentence

eighty

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for eighty.

Editorial note

The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech2

Quick take

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of eighty gathered in one view.

noun

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

adjective

being ten more than seventy

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for eighty.

Example sentences

1

The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries.

2

Roughly eighty full-time people work in fact checking and the research/library at Der Spiegel.

3

Good god that is even worse than emacs (eighty megabytes and constantly swapping).

4

The people who designed these places, maybe eighty, a hundred years ago, they had the idea they'd make 'em as self-sufficient as possible.

5

This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century.

6

Second, there's an eighty thousand dollar price tag for a Netgear vulnerability.

7

Surely you wouldn't want to murder everyone at the arbitrary age of 80, because those eighty-year-olds are so darn 'ignorant' and incapable of change?

8

With nearly nine hundred routes that leaves an average near eighty miles.

9

I was paid eighty grand my first year out of college and ninety-five my second.

10

I would purchase a days worth but I am not going to toss eighty odd bucks on something I might not like.

11

The neighborhood where I live was laid out eighty or ninety years ago.

12

I picked one up at Fry's for eighty bucks however I did not realized that it only wrote to WMA - and Bonita had an iMac.

Quote examples

1

Nobody goes from forty to eighty because they're an "unproven undergraduate." They go from forty to eighty when somebody's screwing them and gets called on it.

2

Do you pronounce smt88 as "S-M-T eighty-eight" or "smart-dude-who-knows-his-shit eighty-eight?"

3

"Three breeds were singled out as having caesarian rates of over eighty per cent – the French Bulldog at 81.3%, the Bulldog at 86.1% and the Boston Terrier at a remarkable 92.3%" [1].

4

No one I know ever do the reverse, either; you don't decide "I'm going to go eighty miles, and this car consumes 2 gallons per 100 miles, so I need to make sure the taken has at least 2×80/100 = 1.6 gallons".

Proper noun examples

1

Jana - Boston, MA, USA Full-time Eighty-five percent of the world’s mobile users are on restrictive pay-as-you-go plans.

2

Eighty hour weeks are exceptional situations, not the norm.

3

—George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Well, doesn't that sum up the modern West in a nutshell.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use eighty in a sentence?

The implicit -- but rarely articulated -- assumption is that the eighty-hour standard has prevailed for centuries.

What does eighty mean?

the cardinal number that is the product of ten and eight

What part of speech is eighty?

eighty is commonly used as noun, adjective.