seventy-ninth

American  

[sev-uhn-tee-nahynth] / ˈsɛv ən tiˈnaɪnθ /

adjective

1. next after the seventy-eighth; being the ordinal number for 79.

2. being one of 79 equal parts.

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noun

1. a seventy-ninth part, especially of one (1/79).

2. the seventy-ninth member of a series.

Example Sentences

I spoke with Sanders earlier this fall, in Los Angeles, where he had just celebrated his seventy-ninth birthday by playing two shows in the area.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2020

“The Empire State Building has been the location of dozens of movies, the reception site of foreign dignitaries, and even had a World War Two bomber crash into the seventy-ninth floor in 1945.”

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

He died on the 25th of January, 1833, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, without issue, and without any lingering affection of the American people.

From Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical by Hunter, C. L.

I am now living on borrowed time, being in my seventy-ninth year.

From Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured by Cluthe Rupture Institute

It was a most extraordinary circumstance for him to miss a single Sabbath from church; and we do not think this occurred a score of times up to his seventy-ninth year.

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Ballou, Maturin Murray