ninety

[US]/'naɪntɪ/
[UK]/'naɪnti/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

English definition: the number ninety.
Word Forms
Pluralnineties

Phrases & Collocations

ninety years old

ninety percent

ninety days

ninety minutes

ninety degrees

ninety dollars

Example Sentences

a cheque for ninety pounds.

ninety kilometers an hour

Oxford Road joins the High Street at an angle of ninety degrees.

the cliff drops ninety metres to the valley below.

what's ninety three minus seven?.

every minute, or at the outside, every ninety seconds.

you got ninety days to pay up the principal.

he would have a ninety-minute start on them.

an angle of ninety degrees 90

The chapter extends to more than ninety pages.

He's ninety, but still he lives on.

He is ninety years old,but his mind is sharp.

crackheads, loafers, and general Nineties low life.

some men scaled less than ninety pounds.

the environmental damage wreaked by ninety years of phosphate mining.

You were driving at ninety miles an hour.

Nestor is said to have lived three ages when he was ninety years old.

the transport secretary has set out plans to ease traffic jams at ninety-two pinch points.

whatever they do in the Nineties will not resound in the way that their earlier achievements did.

Real-world Examples

Many experts describe the nineteen nineties as one of the best periods in United States history.

Source: VOA Special October 2018 Collection

In some areas, as much as ninety percent of Aboriginal children struggle to read and write.

Source: VOA Special September 2014 Collection

Ninety percent of the population was illiterate.

Source: Biography of Famous Historical Figures

Born in the late nineties or early noughties?

Source: 6 Minute English

Ninety percent of them were Jews.

Source: CNN 10 Student English January 2020 Collection

Those rhinestone tattoos from the nineties.

Source: 73 Quick Questions and Answers with Celebrities (Bilingual Selection)

About ninety percent of drugs fail.

Source: BBC Listening February 2015 Collection

He could be ninety or he could be thirty.

Source: Fifty Shades of Grey (Audiobook Excerpt)

" Ninety—a hundred." He shook his head and smiled.

Source: Original Chinese Language Class in American Elementary Schools

We have people from seven to ninety years old.

Source: VOA Standard English_Africa

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