Used in a Sentence

seventy

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for seventy.

Editorial note

The deer is a mere pair of one inch eyes glowing in your headlights, while the billboard is seventy five feet of glowing red and white.

Examples16
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

The translators of the Septuagint

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of seventy gathered in one view.

noun

The translators of the Septuagint

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for seventy.

noun

The translators of the Septuagint

Example sentences

1

The deer is a mere pair of one inch eyes glowing in your headlights, while the billboard is seventy five feet of glowing red and white.

2

That said, to stand in either man's shoes these seventy years later is an act of imagination beyond me.

3

If nothing but bikes use a road, it will be good for the next seventy-five years.

4

It could take all the scorn it's heaped on Christianity for the last seventy years, and heap it on Islam.

5

The other seventy-one drugs approved that year were variations of old drugs or deemed no better than drugs already on the market.

6

This myth is typically defended by a comparison of the modern forty-hour week with its seventy- or eighty-hour counterpart in the nineteenth century.

7

It took them seventy years to release a couple of Turing papers.

8

Feature request: Use replaceState so I don't need to hit back seventy times when I'm done reading slides on the internet.

9

Now, with seventy-eight-year-old grandmothers taking advantage of loopholes in the G.

10

Seven of seventy-eight is not much of a yield.

11

You can sell them back to me at seventy.

12

Three out of seventy students I know use it (4%), including myself.

Quote examples

1

Rather, a corpus of data was used to train the neural net and, for whatever reason, the answer "seventy-two" was the highest probability output.

2

An example from Britain was a national lottery that had something like seventy-six different winners, who all bet on the same "lucky" number that happened to be drawn in that drawing.

3

It's worth remembering that, while you may look at a 70-year-old and think "I could never live like that", that's largely because your mind is not seventy years old yet.

4

I then blasted an eMail all over G-d's Creation that pointed out that "The United States Air Force isn't going to want to pay seventy million dollars for this." Their reply?

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use seventy in a sentence?

The deer is a mere pair of one inch eyes glowing in your headlights, while the billboard is seventy five feet of glowing red and white.

What does seventy mean?

The translators of the Septuagint

What part of speech is seventy?

seventy is commonly used as noun.