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seventy-one

[ sev-uhn-tee-wuhn ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 1.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 71 or LXXI.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 71 in number.

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Example Sentences

Seventy-one percent of voters in Louisiana say they support background checks.

Seventy-one percent agreed with the statement “I wanted to solve the problem on my own.”

Seventy-one percent of blind people like myself are not working right now.

The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.

The motion was negatived by a majority of two hundred and twenty-nine against seventy-one.

On a division the motion was negatived by a majority of two hundred and seventy-one against two hundred and sixty-two.

The census taken in 1855 declared the population of the island to be seventy-one thousand.

He found Osceola and Chief Alligator with seventy-one picked warriors assembled under the white flag for council.

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