Wiktionary
card. The cardinal number immediately following eighty-eight and preceding ninety.
WordNet
adj. being nine more than eighty [syn: 89, ixc]
Usage examples of "eighty-nine".
Eighty-nine percent of these apparatchiks of the DNC recently voted for the Democrat Party.
The greatest concentration of the chemical bomb (hydrogen sulfide: ingeniously implanted in the building's basement ventilating system) was at the front of the auditorium where the eighty-nine graduating seniors, their teachers and school district administrators were seated By the time the Patriot-Ledger printed its front-page article on the mysterious event, two days later, declaring in broad headlines STINK BOMB DISRUPTS MT.
Because iceberg lettuce was eighty-nine cents a head, Helen had tried to feed the manatee Romaine, which was much cheaper, but the manatee didn't care much for it, so she had gone back to giving it iceberg.
With Lila just behind him, he was inarched back to the otherwise still-deserted service stairway and down nine flights of concrete steps to eighty-nine, a residential level.
I stood before the soda machine, confronted with that paradox that has stopped me in my tracks many times before-if the 32-ounce Big Gulp costs eighty-nine cents, how can the 44-ounce Super Big Gulp cost sixty-nine cents?