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seventy-five
[ sev-uhn-tee-fahyv ]
noun
- a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
- a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- Military.
- a gun with a 75-millimeter caliber.
- the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.
adjective
- 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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