seventy-seven

American  

[sev-uhn-tee-sev-uhn] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈsɛv ən /

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 7.

2. a symbol for this number, as 77 or LXXVII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

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adjective

1. amounting to 77 in number.

Example Sentences

But at seventy-seven I’m into the actuarial zone.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

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

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

The next two witnesses, Susie McDonald, seventy-seven, and Mary Louise Smith, who had by then turned nineteen, gave similar testimony to similar questions.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose