Word Finder - eight

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The digit/figure 8.

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Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.

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A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which eight rowers each have two oars.

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(especially in plural) A race in which such craft participate.

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The eight people who crew a rowing-boat.

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A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.

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Describing a group or set with eight elements.

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He works eight hours a day.

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The ordinal form of the number eight.

It was already nearing eight o'clock.

Chasing after eight or ten kids should keep her busy.

She could set her clock by his arrival - eight o'clock every Friday night - in a blue plaid western shirt and battered black cowboy hat.

He was eight years old when he heard about the ride of Paul Revere and the famous fight at Lexington.

Our friends had a good start and were able to maintain it, for with their eight wings they could go just as fast as could the Gargoyles.

You know that man I was telling you about - the one who comes in at exactly eight every Friday night?

Her guards changed every eight hours, and this one would.ve started his shift at midnight.

She was ninety eight percent human.

Newly crowned heroine Lydia Larkin won the election by eight votes.

We finished the season with eight losses and that one tie.

The first time I was eight or nine and my action earned me a cracked lip.

When eight years of age he was the best scholar at the famous school at Harrow.

Eight miles from Ouray, but still four miles from the summit of Red Mountain Pass, the road leveled out.

She stood up and bowed when she discovered eight different digits appeared, the numbers two through nine.

During the interim we learned the sad news of the death of the Alabama Deputy Sheriff who was shot multiple times after stopping the kidnapper of eight year old Jennifer Morley.

Betsy remained down in the dumps over Martha's departure but per usual, she successfully researched the Internet and found directions to eight different camping parks in the area.

However, locked up in ocean water—just suspended in ocean water—may be the equivalent of eight more such cubes.

Besides the family, there were eight borzoi kennelmen and more than forty borzois, so that, with the borzois on the leash belonging to members of the family, there were about a hundred and thirty dogs and twenty horsemen.

Eight traitors in the week he'd been shut out of the underworld.

Over the CCC's nine-year life, its workers planted nearly three billion trees, built eight hundred parks, and constructed roads in remote areas.

I was then about eight years old.

Whether all the enemy forces were, as we supposed, six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one knew till after eight o'clock.

Twelve sharpshooters with muskets stepped out of the ranks with a firm regular tread and halted eight paces from the post.

It was after eight, long past his usual wake-up time.

He was elected to Congress, he was chosen judge of the supreme court of Tennessee, he was appointed general in the army, and lastly he was for eight years the president of the United States.

However, they needed more supplies—additional batteries, a second flashlight, and marking chalk—all to be purchased at the variety store, which didn't open until eight o'clock.

I thought I would head to the office around eight forty-five.

We got there about eight in the morn­ing and didn't leave until about nine that night!

Next day, at eight in the morning, Pierre and Nesvitski drove to the Sokolniki forest and found Dolokhov, Denisov, and Rostov already there.

She's in the early stages of pregnancy, no more than eight weeks.

When we went home we saw eight rabbits and two fat puppies, and a nice little white pony, and two wee kittens and a pretty curly dog named Don.

At eight I study arithmetic.

Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously round an open window.

At eight o'clock Kutuzov rode to Pratzen at the head of the fourth column, Miloradovich's, the one that was to take the place of Przebyszewski's and Langeron's columns which had already gone down into the valley.

All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had eight hundred rubles scored up against him.

But don't be late, Count, if I may venture to ask; about ten minutes to eight, please.

I assure you I was his enemy eight years ago.

The newspaper sub­scription was called in on April eight, the first day he's back in Parkside!

There were eight pigeons on the roof of the house, and a great dog on the step.

She has eight puppies, and she thinks there never were such fine puppies as hers.

He let the eight hundred remain and laid down a seven of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor.

In 1806 the old prince was made one of the eight commanders in chief then appointed to supervise the enrollment decreed throughout Russia.

One morning, between seven and eight, returning after a sleepless night, he sent for embers, changed his rain-soaked underclothes, said his prayers, drank tea, got warm, then tidied up the things on the table and in his own corner, and, his face glowing from exposure to the wind and with nothing on but his shirt, lay down on his back, putting his arms under his head.

When her carriage drove out of the house, he mounted and accompanied her eight miles from Bogucharovo to where the road was occupied by our troops.

Probably a word of command was given and was followed by the reports of eight muskets; but try as he would Pierre could not afterwards remember having heard the slightest sound of the shots.

The run was eight feet high and had a top, so they wouldn't fly out and nothing would get in.

In order to prevent youthful unchastity, marriages are contracted between children of eight years old, the girl being brought home to live with the lad at his parents' home till a child is born, when a separate dwelling is provided for the youthful couple.

There is also a state school book commission, consisting of the state superintendent and eight other members appointed by the governor.

In July 1807 another British force of eight thousand men under General Whitelock endeavoured to regain possession of Buenos Aires, but strenuous preparations had been made for resistance, and after fierce street fighting the invading army, after suffering severe losses, was compelled to capitulate.

There are eight mines in the Bendigo district over 3000 ft.