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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In fiscal year 2018, the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation brought in $12.5 million from admissions and donations, and reported seventy-seven million dollars in net assets.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019
Two hundred and seventy-seven of 11,212 respondents to the U.S.D.A. poll said they ate “all day long.”
From The New Yorker • May 21, 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
Hansen is now seventy-seven and retired from NASA.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 20, 2018
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
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