seventy

[US]/'sev(ə)ntɪ/
[UK]/'sɛvnti/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the number 70; the age of seventy; the decade of the seventies
adj. of the number seventy; of the age of seventy; of the number seventy
Word Forms
Pluralseventies

Phrases & Collocations

seventy years old

seventy percent

seventy dollars

seventy books

seventy kilometers

seventy people

seventy students

Example Sentences

about seventy people attended.

He has seen seventy winters.

he must be seventy if he's a day.

This hall holds a maximum of seventy people.

This is an article that is retailed at seventy pence.

I was speeding, doing seventy-five.

there are no fewer than seventy different brand names.

the temperature is seventy-seven, the humidity in the low thirties.

in the Seventies the mode for active wear took hold.

Mrs.Snow will go out a great deal, even at seventy-five.

My teacher is a seventy-year-old woman.

the heart is a muscle which contracts about seventy times a minute.

in the thirties and seventies, legs went into purdah.

Seventy men at the factory were redundant because of falling demand for our products.

Seventy protesters were killed by indiscriminate gunfire.

seventies disco dancing — very now.

She may be seventy, but she can get up and dance with the best of them!

"From his appearance, you wouldn't think he was an old man of seventy years."

Real-world Examples

They're all from the late seventies, mid seventies.

Source: Connection Magazine

" You must forgive your brother seven times seventy" he notes.

Source: History

The violence left 12 people dead and more than seventy others injured.

Source: VOA Slow English - Entertainment

Seventy percent of the world's population lives on coastal plains.

Source: "BBC Documentary: Home"

'You're very kind, but I'm afraid he won't come. He's nearly seventy.'

Source: Little Women (abridged version)

Then came the seventies and gadgets.

Source: Listening Digest

Mrs Li is over seventy years old.

Source: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Junior Middle School English

Seventy percent of Yemenis depend on international assistance.

Source: BBC Listening Collection September 2021

He's going to be seventy years old.

Source: L0 English Enlightenment

Seventy four people spam me the same link.

Source: Go blank axis version

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