seventy-seventh

[ sev-uhn-tee-sev-uhnth ]

adjective

1. next after the seventy-sixth; being the ordinal number for 77.
2. being one of 77 equal parts.

noun

1. a seventy-seventh part, especially of one (1/77).
2. the seventy-seventh member of a series.

Example Sentences

There is only one preparation necessary for a “debate” with Donald Trump: provision of the vocal cords with enough throat spray to prevent going hoarse as you utter the phrase “that’s a lie” for the seventy-seventh time.

From Salon

Seventy-seventh Division and more than five hundred men, trapped in a ravine behind enemy lines, were surrounded by a much larger force of Germans.

From Literature

The U.N. credentials committee met on Dec. 12 and agreed, without a vote, to "postpone its consideration of the credentials" for Myanmar, Afghanistan and Libya "and to revert to consideration of these credentials at a future time in the seventy-seventh session," which ends mid-September next year.

From Reuters

The Earl himself soon followed them to the grave, a month short of his seventy-seventh birthday.

From Literature

One day, she went into a button shop at 236 East Seventy-seventh Street, heard that the owner had died, and bought the inventory, in the spirit of seizing a trove of found objects.

From The New Yorker