NOUN
- the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-seven and one
ADJECTIVE
- being eight more than twenty
How To Use twenty-eight In A Sentence
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- Twenty-eight of the marshals were shot and another 160 police officers were injured.
- By 1920 the Catholic population numbered about seventeen million and included some twenty-eight ethnic groups.
- She remembered because she told Paris to let them know that they needed to concentrate their re-modulated multiphasic sensor arrays in sweeps of the same area, the rationale being that two sets of eyes were better than one—especially when looking for a tiny submersible in about twenty-eight cubic kilometers of water. Distant Shores
- The ascensional force of the new balloon was then about three thousand pounds, and, in adding together the weight of the apparatus, of the passengers, of the stock of water, of the car and its accessories, and putting aboard fifty gallons of water, and one hundred pounds of fresh meat, the doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight hundred and thirty pounds. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- In fact half of its twenty-eight pieces are reprinted from that book.
- Street extra, with a scarehead story of how Blitzen had kept 'em guessin 'all day and then, in the last quarter of an hour of tradin', had gone bumpin 'the bumps from twenty-eight down to almost nothin' at all. Torchy
- She was twenty-eight years of age with the kind of breathtaking allure normally associated with the cover of a glossy fashion magazine.
- Twenty-eight plants were intermediate between these two groups.
- One hundred twenty-eight natal males from the three study clans survived beyond the age of 16 months and thus were potential dispersers.