How to Use seventy in a Sentence

seventy

noun

• She is in her seventies.
• 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
• This was the seventies and the eighties and underground was a thing.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 July 2024
• 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
• What started the Bronx’s fires in the nineteen-sixties and seventies?
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• 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
• In each drop are two distinct identities; Indian menswear and the tone of Paris in the seventies.
  — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Howard Shore and my dad did a musical together in the early seventies.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024