seventy-seven

[ sev-uhn-tee-sev-uhn ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 7.
2. a symbol for this number, as 77 or LXXVII.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 77 in number.

Example Sentences

They married on June 7th, 1983, and seventy-seven days later, she was dead.

From The Daily Beast

Seventy-seven separate autopsy reports were introduced into evidence.

From The Daily Beast

On a division the original motion was carried by a majority of two hundred and seventy-seven against twenty-five.

From Project Gutenberg

One day Paston's men made a raid upon Drayton, and carried off seventy-seven head of cattle.

From Project Gutenberg

A full month later her sick-list was still seventy-seven, out of a total of less than four hundred.

From Project Gutenberg

She died on January 16, 1858, the very day after the first performance, aged seventy-seven years and a half.

From Project Gutenberg

He died in the course of a few days, at the age of seventy-seven, and was buried in Burley churchyard, near Otley.

From Project Gutenberg