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How to use the word Eighty in a Sentence?

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This is illegal. The president doesn't have the authority to do this. He's not an emperor. He can't just with the stroke of a pen cancel $300-$400 billion worth of student loans, it's unfair. Eighty-five percent of the people in this country do not have a student loan. They either had one and paid it or they don't have one, and that 85% is gonna pay for the 15% who got a tangible benefit.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's unfair. Eighty-five percent of the people in this country do not have a student loan. They either had one and paid it or they don't have one, and that 85% is gonna pay for the 15% who got a tangible benefit.

Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

America has the most powerful economy in all of human history. It takes a lot of energy to run it. Eighty percent of our energy comes from oil and gas, we produced a lot of that oil and gas for years — we've worked to become energy-independent. Now, President Biden should change all that.

John Kennedy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Eighty-five percent of the people that are in my jail right now are there because of alcohol or drugs. So yeah, it's a big impact in our communities.

Mark Lamb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Honestly, we're seeing a disaster, eighty-five percent of the people that are in my jail right now are there because of alcohol or drugs. So yeah, it's a big impact in our communities.

Mark Lamb

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is very impactful from a climate change perspective, eighty to 90 % of water used around the world is for agriculture. Because we grow our plants using precise nutrient recipes, we can use a very small solution of water.

Shireen Santosham

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are a platform that is obviously much larger than any one topic or any one account. Eighty percent of our audience is outside the United States, we are also not dependent upon just news and politics being what drives Twitter.

Jack Dorsey

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Eighty percent of chronic diseases we face are preventable and reversible by eating a more plant-based diet. This [ pandemic ] is a call to action to switch to more plant-based meals and to cook more. They are the two silver linings.

Robert Graham

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My testimony was painful but necessary, i spoke for Annabella Sciorra and with the strength of the eighty plus victims of Harvey Weinstein in my heart. While we hope for continued righteous outcomes that bring absolute justice, we can never regret breaking the silence. For in speaking truth to power we pave the way for a more just culture, free of the scourge of violence against women.

Annabella Sciorra

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I was at a middle school not too long ago and every hand went up when I asked them,' do you know somebody who vapes in your school ?' we're talking about young, young people. Eighty percent of those people will tell you they would not have started vaping were it not for flavors.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It wasn't because we were walking enthusiasts or because we love to walk. When we started we were just trying to save our own lives, how do we not fall in these pitfalls that our mothers and our aunts and our grandmothers have fallen into ? Eighty percent of us are overweight and carrying that weight is killing us now at disproportionate levels. We can't do it anymore. We can't carry it anymore.

Morgan Dixon

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Eighty percent of Czech spruce forests are at high risk of dying, most of our spruce monocultures in lower and mid-laying areas will probably disappear, in years or in a few decades.

Jaromir Blaha

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

...How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?” “In my own bed, with a belly full of wine and a maiden's mouth around my cock, at the age of eighty,” he replied.

George R.R. Martin

added by Normando
5 years ago

Whether it is eight or eighty-eight migrants, I do not authorize anyone to enter Italy.

Wednesday Salvini

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Eighty percent of what this president has done has been very, very good, very positive.

Dean Heller

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

First of all, it's a phony attack, and secondly, it's extremely sexist to say that a woman is beholden to her father's former employer ... 84% of the record-breaking money that we raised in this campaign is from Michigan. Eighty-two percent of it is $100 or less.

Richard Whitmer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Even the DEVIL is only eighty percent EVIL, and not one hundred percent.

Anonymous

added by anonymous
7 years ago

Eighty people ca n’t fit in that apartment.

Madalena Mosna

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There was a lot of shouting and pacing of the floor and banging of the desk, but after he calmed down, I told him there was something else he had to do, he had to authorize me to tell Attorney General Loretta Lynch that we were doing a one-eighty on Hillary Clinton. No indictment, no matter what.

Valerie Jarrett

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I mean, the truth is, he is as unlikely a candidate, really, as Donald Trump, [Sanders] is without charm. He is elderly. He is running on an economic program that is eighty years old and has proven not to work, and yet he is drawing crowds of people who know for a certainty that he is not going to win—and they’re coming out anyway.

Tucker Carlson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think (the bill) is dangerously harmful to students because we know there is a higher risk of suicide (among transgender people) in general, but among transgender students, there's an even higher risk. Eighty-three thousand signatures shows just how many reasons (the governor) has to veto this.

Heather Smith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Eighty-five to 90 percent of my clients that come in annually have a sexual addiction or compulsion.For the first time in the human race, you can make love to your computer, smartphone, or tablet anytime, anywhere, and the human brain was not designed for this, it’s cocaine on steroids. It’s touch deprivation, so you don’t need to go to your spouse or your significant other for that connection, which is paramount to cultivating relationships.

Jeremy Boberg

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Eighty percent of the people infected by Zika do not develop significant symptoms. A large number of people have the virus with no symptoms, so the situation is more serious that we can imagine, our big hope is finding a vaccine.

Health Minister Marcelo Castro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't know where they got their numbers from. Eighty of the witnesses are victims, and they are foreigners, and they are under the protection of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.

Prayuth Porsuttayaruk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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