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[ twen-tee-sev-uhn, twuhn- ] / ˈtwɛn tiˈsɛv ən, ˈtwʌn- /
nouna cardinal number, 20 plus 7. a symbol for this number, as 27 or XXVII. a set of this many persons or things. adjectiveamounting to 27 in number. Words nearby twenty-seventwenty-ninth, twenty-one, twenty questions, twenty-second, Twenty-second Amendment, twenty-seven, twenty-seventh, Twenty-seventh Amendment, twenty-six, twenty-six counties, twenty-sixer Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for twenty-sevenTwenty-seven percent of African-Americans said they would not report a crime to the police, compared to 54 percent of Hispanics. Woman Who Says She Was Held Captive for 10 Years Feared Deportation|Caitlin Dickson|May 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST We can feel her sensuality and willfulness in the first daguerreotype we have of Mary, taken in 1846, when she was twenty-seven. Lincoln in Love|Jerome Charyn|February 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Twenty-seven of the 43 defendants, including all but one of the Americans, were tried in absentia. Egypt Sentences American Workers to Jail Time|Vivian Salama|June 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST Miss Alma Cummings won the inaugural competition, held in New York City, after staying on her feet for twenty-seven hours. American Dreams, 1923: Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton|Nathaniel Rich|March 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I'm a twenty-seven year old college graduate that's over $140,000 in debt from private student loans. Why I Choose to Be Child-Free: Readers Share Their Stories|Harry Siegel|February 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST Twenty-seven of the imprisoned crew crept out through the torpedo tubes. Aircraft and Submarines|Willis J. Abbot. He treated us with the second best of his twenty-seven graduated manners. Miss Cayley's Adventures|Grant Allen Its dimensions are fifty feet by twenty-seven, and eighteen feet high. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.|Various He was suckled for twenty-one months, and died at the age of twenty-seven months. Remarks on the Subject of Lactation|Edward Morton The force of gravity at the sun's surface is, indeed, about twenty-seven times that at the surface of our globe. Astronomy of To-day|Cecil G. Dolmage
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