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/ˈtwɛntiˌfɔɹ/
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ADJECTIVE
- being four more than twenty
NOUN
- the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-three and one
How To Use twenty-four In A Sentence
- He divided twenty-four of the plants into six initial groups of four, in order of size as estimated by eye.
- A number of the predominately male workforce have twenty-four years service with the company.
- Franchise won't letcha close; it's twenty-four-seven. One Minute to Midnight
- Twenty-four hours after leaving Waller's, I was sipping a single malt by my own fireside in Hampshire.
- It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
- Some indeed were revelling in the formulae of algebraical infinity and of twenty-four-dimensional space, like a child in the elementary class dealing with the four rules of arithmetic.
- In this city the Markets were held open twenty-four hours a day to better serve the people who worked wildly different shifts throughout the levels of the city.
- Twenty-four hours later, as the train slows outside Mogaung, I hop off, run down a dirt road, and leap into the first trishaw I see.
- The St. Katharinenthal novice Kathrin Brümsin was taught the text to all twenty-four verses of the sequence Verbum dei by Saint John the Evangelist in a dream-vision. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
- [171] An occasional ear of corn in a thrave, -- that is, twenty-four sheaves. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.