Used in a Sentence

eighty-one

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for eighty-one.

Editorial note

The whole tape was only eighty-one seconds, but even so, only a small portion of that eighty-one seconds had been shown on television.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

being one more than eighty

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

being one more than eighty

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for eighty-one.

adjective

being one more than eighty

Example sentences

1

The whole tape was only eighty-one seconds, but even so, only a small portion of that eighty-one seconds had been shown on television.

2

Two physicists prove that there are not just four ways to tie a tie, but a further eighty-one.

3

National IQ and Economic Development: A Study of Eighty-One Nations, by Lynn and Vanhanen.

4

One ray of priceless hope I see Before my footsteps shine; Just think, that She'll be eighty-one When I am forty-nine.

5

I'm happy to say that he was recently kicked out of hospice for being too healthy, but the chances of him making it to eighty-one are very slim.

6

Their income sum, seventy-eight thousand nine eighty-one, Minus the standard deduction, the math's begum With exemptions being zero, the next line we trace, A taxable income of fifty-four thousand nine eighty-one takes place.

7

I have an eighty-one-year-old mother (born in the 1930s, of course) and a ninety-four-year-old aunt (born in the 1920s) and have other relatives who are quite old and still healthy.

8

My mom (who also has allergies) is eighty-one years old and still living independently and enjoying her favorite activities, and she has sisters and brothers older than she is who are still in good health.

9

> Bitcoin mining now consumes a hundred and forty-five billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year..producing that electricity results in eighty-one million tons of CO2 How do they even calculate it?

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Five thousand five hundred thirty-five, it starts, Plus twenty-eight percent of the excess imparts, Eighteen thousand eighty-one, the difference we find, Multiplied by point two eight, the tax liability's designed.

Quote examples

1

The system has an eighty-one percent classification accuracy in a laboratory test setting That sounds pretty good -- "It catches 81% of the bad guys".

2

> "Dag Aabye is eighty-one, lives in an old school bus on a mountain, and is pushing his body to its absolute limits" I like Dags.

3

My mom, still alive and well at age eighty-one, was a surgical nurse who was described by my late dad as "one of a dozen people in the world who could disassemble and reassemble a heart-lung machine" early in her career.

4

Anyway, if people have gone from "ehh, I'll stick twenty bucks in just to see what happens" to "I'm gonna buy eighty-one thousand dollars worth of these things!" then it confirms my suspicion that the world is about to run out of bigger fools to sell 'em to.

Proper noun examples

1

Eighty-one percent of youth and 86% of young adult ever tobacco users reported that their first product was flavored versus 54% of adults aged ≥25 years.

2

Eighty-one cultures if you include the Clangers' planet.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use eighty-one in a sentence?

The whole tape was only eighty-one seconds, but even so, only a small portion of that eighty-one seconds had been shown on television.

What does eighty-one mean?

being one more than eighty

What part of speech is eighty-one?

eighty-one is commonly used as adjective.