seventy-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 79 or LXXIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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I sank seventy-nine out of a hundred after breakfast, and he told me I could do better.
From Literature
"Now we know how this will end. The president will be acquitted. And thankfully, in two hundred and seventy-nine days, we will have an election in this country."
From Fox News
Tutu was seventy-nine years old, a barrel-chested man with bright eyes and an irrepressible laugh.
From Literature
“Please, Bryson, can I borrow”—he looked at the price—“four dollars and seventy-nine cents? I’m broke.”
From Literature
But I don’t want to say, just because someone is seventy-nine, they can’t or shouldn’t run for President.
From The New Yorker
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