seventy-third

[sev-uhn-tee-thurd]

adjective

1. next after the seventy-second; being the ordinal number for 73.

2. being one of 73 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-third part, especially of one (1/73).

2. the seventy-third member of a series.

Example Sentences

Bellistri had encouraged Denton to join him in the Thirteenth Precinct, in Manhattan, but Denton wanted to stay at the Seventy-third Precinct, in Brownsville.

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This year, Bellistri, now seventy-three years old, made flyers, which he distributed at the Seventy-third and other precincts, urging people to go to the parole board’s Web site and send a letter opposing Dennis’s release at his next hearing.

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Every year on July 24th, Bellistri sends flowers to the Seventy-third Precinct, and he stops in during roll call to speak to the officers about his friend.

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She meets the artists and the staff in her apartment, on Seventy-third Street, and then struggles to find a hotel to house them all; she describes the shows as “conventions” for drag queens, occasions where the social and the professional overlap.

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Although both were represented on Broadway this season, neither made an appearance at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday night, where the seventy-third annual Tony Awards were presented.

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