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How to pronounce threescore in English?

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Synonyms 60, lx, sixty
Type Words
Type of set

Examples of threescore

threescore
Having reached threescore and 10 years, Zhu should be resting on his achievements.
From the time.com
I was 70 last year and there is something about achieving threescore years and 10, isn't there?
From the independent.co.uk
Threescore and ten is no longer the province of the rich, but an expectation for our great human family.
From the joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com
Threescore years ago, Jerome Kern and Guy Bolton brought forth on Broadway a thoroughly beguiling musical.
From the time.com
By then young Ray had gone through more in his brief life than most of us would want to bear in our threescore and ten.
From the theatlantic.com
An outbreak of monkeypox in the Midwest, the first ever to hit the western hemisphere, left more than threescore sick.
From the time.com
Medicine has not yet been able to nudge upward the biblical allotment of threescore years and ten, and we are already halfway there.
From the time.com
I might have walked about the foot of the tree for threescore years and ten, and yet I certainly should never have seen them.
From the theatlantic.com
In threescore years, I've had a few.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • A set with 3 times 20 members
  • Sixty: being ten more than fifty
  • 60 (sixty) is the natural number following 59 and preceding 61. Being three times twenty, 60 is called "three score" in some older literature.
  • Sixty