seventy-nine

[ sev-uhn-tee-nahyn ]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 9.
2. a symbol for this number, as 79 or LXXIX.
3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 79 in number.

Example Sentences

I sank seventy-nine out of a hundred after breakfast, and he told me I could do better.

From Literature

"Now we know how this will end. The president will be acquitted. And thankfully, in two hundred and seventy-nine days, we will have an election in this country."

From Fox News

Tutu was seventy-nine years old, a barrel-chested man with bright eyes and an irrepressible laugh.

From Literature

“Please, Bryson, can I borrow”—he looked at the price—“four dollars and seventy-nine cents? I’m broke.”

From Literature

In 2016, the federal government spent ninety-one billion dollars subsidizing college attendance; for as little as seventy-nine billion dollars, tuition could be eliminated at all public colleges.

From The New Yorker