How to Use sixty-nine in a Sentence

sixty-nine

noun
  • The sixty-nine thousand fans inside felt like my people.
    — Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • One hundred and sixty-nine people were wounded in the bombing.
    — CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Diana, a jovial sixty-nine-year-old grandmother, moves Iain’s ice cream out of the freezer.
    — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Brad Johnson, a sixty-nine-year-old in Utah, had grown up in a family of five short sleepers and three normal sleepers.
    — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Cornyn, still the establishment conservative, raised roughly sixty-nine million dollars; Paxton just four million.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • In 2004, there were sixty-nine sideswipe accidents in New Orleans in which a passenger vehicle collided with a large truck.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The objective was to climb—without ropes, a harness, or a parachute—a sixty-nine-floor luxury apartment building in Jersey City, New Jersey, called the Urby.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
  • During that time, more than sixty-seven thousand Palestinians have been killed, and more than a hundred and sixty-nine thousand have been injured; a United Nations commission recently described Israel’s actions as genocide.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025

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