How to Use seventy-eight in a Sentence

seventy-eight

noun
  • Up until then, there had been only seventy-eight astronauts who had gone to space.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Davis, who is seventy-eight, began to think of Carr, about two decades younger than him, as a bully and a braggart.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Chibuike was never with her at all, but that didn’t stop him from extracting about seventy-eight thousand euros from her over four years.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • At the Ring of Brodgar, Thom claimed, lunar motions were tracked over a period of a hundred and seventy-eight years.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Though Canada and Mexico are co-hosting, seventy-eight of a hundred and four matches take place on American soil.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 6 July 2026
  • Two hundred and seventy-eight players have now been inducted, and each July, all living members are invited to welcome the incoming class.
    — Jeremy Collins, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Those are the celebrated opening lines of the first part of Howl’s three parts and its footnoted coda, with that initial sentence running-on for seventy-eight frenetic lines.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • My guide on the Alaska Smokejumper Base was Rod Dow, a seventy-eight-year-old retired smokejumper who once held the record for jumps onto fires.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The government had checked a hundred and fifty thousand names against its files, actively monitoring immigrants and citizens alike, and deported at least seventy-eight people.
    — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
  • According to the real-estate search engine StreetEasy, a property in Park Slope spends a median of seventy-eight days on the market.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • In the wars that immediately followed, Israel expanded its share to seventy-eight per cent of the land, leaving just twenty-two per cent for the Palestinian half of the population.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts today named the seventy-eight recipients of its spring 2026 grants.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 8 July 2026
  • In Maine, Graham Platner, a rough-hewn populist who had to cover up a Nazi tattoo, looks set to handily beat Janet Mills, the polished seventy-eight-year-old incumbent governor.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Eight hundred-seventy-eight died between 2016 and 2021, the highest donation period, and 235 donated their brains, the researchers said.
    — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026

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