seventy-eight

[sev-uhn-tee-eyt]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 8.

2. a symbol for this number, as 78 or LXXVIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 78 in number.

Example Sentences

It looks like it could fall over pretty easily, but it’s been calculated that it would take a wind force of seventy-eight tons to knock it over.

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By the late spring of 1845, now age seventy-eight, Jackson was in serious decline.

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Three hundred seventy-eight days later, the Huskies have a chance to right that wrong, when they take on the Sun Devils at 7:30 p.m.

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“It’s all here, filling the whole school. Three hundred seventy-eight miles of it, according to Michael Amorosa—and he’s never wrong.”

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"Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?"

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