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seventy-five

[ sev-uhn-tee-fahyv ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.
  4. Military.
    1. a gun with a 75-millimeter caliber.
    2. the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.


adjective

  1. amounting to 75 in number.

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Example Sentences

Seventy-five percent of the collection was done by the time he got there.

In 1993 a doctor described the Lazarus phenomenon in a seventy-five-year-old man with a lung hemorrhage.

Seventy-five years ago, ‘War of the Worlds’ hit the airwaves, setting off a national panic.

Her main character is a seventy-five-year-old woman, widowed, living alone in a remote beach town in Australia.

Seventy-five percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours.

After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.

For ten acres, or fifty thousand hills, burn and sow three patches each of seventy-five square yards.

Tessa laughed as she counted her money at tea-time; there was a twenty dollar bill and seventy-five cents!

The round trip covers a distance of about seventy-five miles and occupies eight or ten hours.

But Scattergood managed finally to secure it for McKettrick for seventy-five hundred dollars.

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