seventy-eighth
next after the seventy-seventh; being the ordinal number for 78.
being one of 78 equal parts.
a seventy-eighth part, especially of one (1/78).
the seventy-eighth member of a series.
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How to use seventy-eighth in a sentence
He was in his seventy-eighth year when he passed away—wherefore in his last days he must have been "a mine of memories."
Shadows of the Stage | William WinterHe died in his seventy-eighth year an obscure recluse whose works were all but forgotten.
The Life of George Borrow | Clement K. ShorterTo Tintoret's great grief, this daughter died as she was thirty years of age, and her father was in his seventy-eighth year.
The Old Masters and Their Pictures | Sarah TytlerSeventy-seventh week, runs around table; seventy-eighth, walks over threshold without holding on .
The Mind of the Child, Part II | W. PreyerWhite survived him many years, and died in the seventy-eighth year of his age, 1707.
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