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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But at seventy-seven I’m into the actuarial zone.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 16, 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
Solstad, who has just turned seventy-seven, has been as prolific and as various as Roth.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
Martinez finally had the gun working: eighty-eight, eighty-three, eighty-eight, seventy-seven.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 31, 2018
It’s entirely impossible to drive seventy-seven miles per hour on the two-lane state highway that takes us farther north, up toward the Catskills.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
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