ninety-nine

[ nahyn-tee-nahyn ]

/ ˈnaɪn tiˈnaɪn /

a cardinal number, 90 plus 9.

a symbol for this number, as 99 or XCIX.

a set of this many persons or things.

amounting to 99 in number.

Words nearby ninety-nine

He returned to his home state of Connecticut, became a successful banker, and lived to be ninety-nine.

Babe Ruth’s Summer of Records |Bill Bryson |September 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
“Ninety-nine percent of people you see with a turban and a beard are Sikh,” he said.

‘Domestic Terrorism’ Kills Six in Oak Creek Sikh Temple |Ben Jacobs |August 6, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Ninety-nine percent of the people in this office would vote for Saddam if he was on the ballot.

Iraq's Last Election? |Michael Hastings |March 3, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
The ninety-nine percent that is animal causes very little trouble.

Why Bernie Did It |Mansfield Frazier |December 22, 2008 |DAILY BEAST

The average person, in my estimation, is ninety-nine percent animal and one percent human.

Why Bernie Did It |Mansfield Frazier |December 22, 2008 |DAILY BEAST
Enough that it was a very little error, and one that might have passed ninety-nine times in a hundred.

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) |Robert Louis Stevenson
Michael Angelo and Titian were eighty-nine and ninety-nine respectively.

Rambles in Womanland |Max O'Rell
She had not dreamed she could win—it had been that ninety-nine in Cicero.

Highacres |Jane Abbott
When they tuck a ninety-nine year clause into a franchise they mean it's forever, don't they?

Then I'll Come Back to You |Larry Evans
Ninety-nine of these families are Christian families, not families of saints—I wish I knew such a village as that!

France and the Republic |William Henry Hurlbert