seventy-eight
noun
sev·en·ty-eight
ˌse-vən-tē-ˈāt 
ˌse-bᵊm-,
-dē-ˈāt
1
: a number that is one more than 77 see Table of Numbers
2
: a phonograph record designed to be played at 78 revolutions per minute
—usually written 78
seventy-eight
adjective
seventy-eight
pronoun, plural in construction
Examples of seventy-eight in a Sentence
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The rain forest makes up seventy-eight per cent of Brazil’s landmass but contains less than fifteen per cent of its population.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
With the two major candidates set to be an aggregate age of a hundred and fifty-nine on Election Day—Biden will be eighty-one, Trump will be seventy-eight—age was always going to be a factor in the campaign.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
Even before Monday’s indictment, Trump was facing seventy-eight counts in three pending criminal cases against him—two federal cases filed by the special counsel Jack Smith and a New York criminal case being prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
In 1960, a New York apartment could cost seventy-eight dollars a month—roughly eight hundred dollars today.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
Mooney appeared from the kitchen after us, light on his feet, seeming younger than his seventy-eight years.
—Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
And the percentage of Catholics in the Republic has fallen to seventy-eight, a number that includes many whose first language is Polish or Portuguese.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University fell from nine hundred and fifty-three to five hundred and seventy-eight.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
With the two major candidates set to be an aggregate age of a hundred and fifty-nine on Election Day—Biden will be eighty-one, Trump will be seventy-eight—age was always going to be a factor in the campaign.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2024
Even before Monday’s indictment, Trump was facing seventy-eight counts in three pending criminal cases against him—two federal cases filed by the special counsel Jack Smith and a New York criminal case being prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2023
In 1960, a New York apartment could cost seventy-eight dollars a month—roughly eight hundred dollars today.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
Mooney appeared from the kitchen after us, light on his feet, seeming younger than his seventy-eight years.
—Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
And the percentage of Catholics in the Republic has fallen to seventy-eight, a number that includes many whose first language is Polish or Portuguese.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors on campus at Arizona State University fell from nine hundred and fifty-three to five hundred and seventy-eight.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
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“Seventy-eight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seventy-eight. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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