SEVENTY in a Sentence

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49 example sentences for SEVENTY, such as:
1. We lost touch during the seventies.
2. I would put his age at about seventy.
3. This house was built seventy years ago.
4. Put one nought after a seven to make seventy.
5. This is an article that is retailed at seventy pence.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SEVENTY
seventy
 n.  the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven
 a.  being ten more than sixty
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  And all were circled, as happens after seventy, by one recurring question.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  And I say, over and above, that seventy zecchins is enough for the armour, and I hope a Christian's word is as good as a Jew's.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  The Jew's hand trembled for joy as he wrapped up the first seventy pieces of gold.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Among other monstrosities in this lumber room was a largish blackjapanned box, excellently and ingeniously made some sixty or seventy years ago, and fitted with every imaginable object.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  Then one afternoon came Leslie Winter, Squire Winter, as everybody called him: lean, immaculate, and seventy: and every inch a gentleman, as Mrs Bolton said to Mrs Betts.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
6  I've been struggling to get myself clear of the skirts of old women for seventy years, and haven't managed it yet.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
7  The truth is, that our inquiries were too direct; we sent a servant, we went ourselves: this will not do seventy miles from London; but this morning we heard of it in the right way.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  The stone by which he was seated, bore, in large characters, an intimation that it was just seventy miles from that spot to London.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  We've put in seventy pounds of best feathers, and I think that's as many as the tick will fairly hold.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
10  To-day he stands as the one recognized spokesman of his ten million fellows, and one of the most notable figures in a nation of seventy millions.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
11  To-day it is proved by the fact that four hundred Negroes, many of whom have been reported as brilliant students, have received the bachelor's degree from Harvard, Yale, Oberlin, and seventy other leading colleges.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VI
12  We had come to the boundaries of Dougherty, and were about to turn west along the county-line, when all these sights were pointed out to us by a kindly old man, black, white-haired, and seventy.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
13  And as I crossed, I seemed to see again that fierce tragedy of seventy years ago.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  The black-faced lad that paused over his mud and marbles seventy years ago saw puzzling vistas as he looked down the world.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XII
15  Some of the slaves were seventy or eighty years old; their best days were gone.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I.
Example Sentence:
1  I would put his age at about seventy.
2  This house was built seventy years ago.
3  They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.
4  This is an article that is retailed at seventy pence.
5  Copyright expires seventy years after the death of the author.
6  They were asking one hundred and eighty thousand for the place, so I put in an offer of one hundred and seventy.
7  Try to imagine a jet which is more than seventy meters long and more than five stories high at the tail.
8  Put one nought after a seven to make seventy.
9  Along with a devoted team of sixteen full-time staffers and several volunteers, they now nourish kids in seventy Toronto daycares.
10  Although he was over seventy years old, Jack had the vigor of a man in his prime.
11  We lost touch during the seventies.
12  I probably look as if I'm in my fifties rather than my seventies.
13  Flared trousers were a fashion statement of the seventies.