seventy-seven
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 70 plus 7.
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a symbol for this number, as 77 or LXXVII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“As a girl, Johanna was not required to do a woman’s work about the place,” Florence Angermiller learned when she interviewed Johanna at age seventy-seven.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2019
Scott’s spree tracks with a national trend: in recent years, burglaries at gun shops and other federal firearms licensees have increased, from three hundred and seventy-seven, in 2012, to five hundred and seventy-seven, in 2017.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 7, 2019
Solstad, who has just turned seventy-seven, has been as prolific and as various as Roth.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2018
He will retire from performance next year, at the age of seventy-seven.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018
But at seventy-seven, he's long since ceased leading men into border wars.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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