How to Use seventy in a Sentence

seventy

noun
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  • The shield is a nod to the original shield that the team wore in the seventies.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Adoptions had risen to a peak in the seventies and eighties.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There are some folks in their seventies that are being held hostage.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Some of them were older than I, in their sixties and seventies.
    — Geoffrey Owens, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2020
  • In the course of the seventies, Burden switched from endurance stunts to cushier pieces for TV and radio.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In Europe during the seventies, there was no such thing as frozen food.
    — Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Hur’s parents arrived in the U.S. in the early seventies, and he was born soon after.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • But Simmons and Stanley are both in their seventies at this point.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Several ruggedly handsome men played the part in the seventies and eighties in the ads.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Balmain, who is in his seventies, was born in Wick, Scotland, and still speaks with a Scottish burr.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • On top of that, the Eco Trail is a handsome sleeping bag, thanks to its retro seventies colors, styling, and sewn label.
    — Will Egensteiner, Outside Online, 19 June 2019
  • The decision to spend time in a remote location makes sense for the duke and duchess, who are both in their seventies and, as a result, at a .
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2020
  • The other remarkable gift to my mid-seventies was winning the Grammy for album of the year with Daft Punk.
    — Katherine Turman, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The members, now in their seventies, had been laying low ever since.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Martell speaks, in the latter half of the album, on the racist genre-gerrymandering that killed her career in the seventies.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The numbers for Xers and Boomers are in the low seventies for ride-sharing versus taxis, and 60 (Xers) and 54 percent (Boomers) for ride-sharing over rental cars.
    — Sebastian Modak, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2017
  • Think about Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham in the late seventies and early eighties.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • But that was a long time ago, the seventies, an era when a fiction editor could rule like a czar—or a superhero.
    — Vogue, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Back in the seventies, there was no cable or social media.
    — Cal Fussman, Esquire, 14 Jan. 2015
  • But more impressive even than Lisa, was a couple in their mid-seventies.
    — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The ages span from early twenties to mid-seventies, and the group turns out to be resoundingly Caucasian.
    — Barrett Swanson, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The sequence of electrons was established in the seventies.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2024
  • My grandfather bought the Grand Hotel Tremezzo back in the seventies.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024
  • So the men, all in their fifties, sixties, and seventies, simply unload their cargo and begin hauling heavy sacks on foot more than a half mile to the launch point.
    — Ivan Watson, Jungeun Kim, Stella Ko and Jo Shelley, CNN, 17 May 2018
  • Growing up in the seventies during all the economic troubles and crime boom — nothing was fun for us.
    — NBC News, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Test your knowledge on when the most popular products of the sixties, seventies, eighties, and more hit shelves.
    — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2018
  • The Bays have been banking water on and off since the seventies, when drought and high interest rates—and a heavy reliance on a single cash crop—threatened the future of the ranch.
    — Mike Sager, Esquire, 25 Feb. 2015
  • Growing up in the seventies with Rastafarian parents was not the norm at the time and it wasn’t accepted in Jamaica.
    — Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
  • There was the time in the late seventies, after curfew, when a call came to deliver multiple pizzas to the players’ dorm, Gage Hall.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 5 Aug. 2017
  • That number ties him in the Tour’s record book with Merckx, who won sprints, time trials, mountain stages, and even hilly stages during his storied career in the sixties and seventies.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 28 June 2024

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