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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The Kincade Fire, in Sonoma, burned seventy-seven thousand acres; chillingly, it reached the burn scar from the Tubbs Fire, which had devastated wine country in 2017, killing twenty-three people.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2019
“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
According to the Web site TrumpGolfCount.com, which meticulously tracks Trump’s play, he has made a hundred and sixty-five visits to golf clubs since becoming President, and he has played golf at least seventy-seven times.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2019
The coruscating Vito Acconci died on Thursday, at the age of seventy-seven.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 28, 2017
Yet when Oppenheimer arrived in Washington with the letter, Stimson was absent—a man of seventy-seven trying to recover his strength at an Adirondacks resort after the superhuman exertions of the summer.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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