seventy-second

[sev-uhn-tee-sek-uhnd]

adjective

1. next after the seventy-first; being the ordinal number for 72.

2. being one of 72 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-second part, especially of one (1/72).

2. the seventy-second member of a series.

Example Sentences

They all hopped off at Broadway and Seventy-Second Street.

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Gossip, for example, represented one seventy-second of a proof.

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When the BFG had consumed his seventy-second fried egg, Mr Tibbs sidled up to the Queen.

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I hop off at Seventy-Second Street and step out into a mess of people and taxis and strollers and noise.

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I whip around in a full one-eighty, already speed-walking back to the Seventy-Second Street station.

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