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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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 ● Jul. 10, 2019
Senator Bernie Sanders is oldest at seventy-nine and based on what we know right now is in good health.
From MSNBC ● Apr. 15, 2019
“I’m the guy who saved the Starship Enterprise for seventy-nine weeks and ended up kissing James Spader on a patio.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2018
Cosby, who is now seventy-nine years old, walked into the courthouse with his “TV daughter” Keshia Knight Pulliam, the actress who played Rudy Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 6, 2017
“Please, Bryson, can I borrow”—he looked at the price—“four dollars and seventy-nine cents? I’m broke.”
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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