seventy-one

[sev-uhn-tee-wuhn]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.

2. a symbol for this number, as 71 or LXXI.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 71 in number.

Example Sentences

A day after turning seventy-one, Cher dominated headlines from the 2017 Billboard Music Awards by wearing a nearly identical, Mackie-designed version of the outfit while performing “If I Could Turn Back Time.”

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Isaac Granger Jefferson, as he called himself and was widely known in his later years, died in 1846 at the age of seventy-one, a free man of color.

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“The women in my family look younger than we actually are. We take after my grandmother. She’s seventy-one years old, but she doesn’t look a day over fifty.”

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He wormed his ship through the ice pack to reach seventy-one degrees south latitude, and then turned north again without ever seeing the land.

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At my last practice before the trip, I only sank seventy-one out of one hundred free throws.

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