quintuplet
IPA: kwˈɪntˈʌpɫʌt
noun
- A group of five, particularly (music) a tuplet of five notes to be played in the time for four.
- One of a group of five, particularly babies born from the same mother during the same birth.
- A cycle adapted for five riders, all of whom can assist in the propulsion.
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Examples of "quintuplet" in Sentences
- Each thinks that his or her quintuplet is the pick of the litter.
- There's a reward for his death by the Empty Seven, quintuplet cyborg monks.
- Not in the Colbert Report way, but in that Addison wants them to be on the quintuplet case.
- There are five “mother” sauces that any chef must master; all others stem from that original quintuplet.
- Yahoo has debuted the full quintuplet set of femme fatale posters for The Spirit with an extra special feature.
- I heard that Busey is actually the recorded father of quintuplet boys, but he hugged them all so powerfully at their birth that they died.
- How many countries do you think actually have it all, the whole hellish quintuplet of war, famine, disease, poverty and bad leadership all at the same time?
- Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it.
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