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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber seventy-seven , describing a person or thing in position number 77 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
seventy-seven equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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Shortly before her seventy-seventh birthday she decamped, leaving behind everything that had rooted her life in Pennsylvania for more than three decades—her family, her house, garden, farm, and barn, her books and possessions, her beloved stands of sycamore and ash—to settle in Vermont with Ted.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Three days after my seventy-seventh birthday, I discovered that seven might not be such a lucky number after all.
The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010
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DeMille planned to go to Paradise that weekend and hoped to spend his seventy-seventh birthday on August 12 at the studio.
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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Shortly before her seventy-seventh birthday she decamped, leaving behind everything that had rooted her life in Pennsylvania for more than three decades—her family, her house, garden, farm, and barn, her books and possessions, her beloved stands of sycamore and ash—to settle in Vermont with Ted.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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Two weeks before he died I flew him to LA for his seventy-seventh birthday.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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Three days after my seventy-seventh birthday, I discovered that seven might not be such a lucky number after all.
The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010
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Three days after my seventy-seventh birthday, I discovered that seven might not be such a lucky number after all.
The Grace to Race Sister Madonna Buder 2010
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A day later, his seventy-seventh birthday, he had gone to Washington to lay the cornerstone for the new National Presbyterian Church and had been honored at a Mayflower Hotel luncheon attended by a host of governmental officials led by Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010
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By the time his seventy-seventh birthday came around, I knew that he was pretty close to the end and I wanted him to have at least one last visit with his illicit paramour before he crossed over into the far yonder.
Full Frontal Nudity Harry Hamlin 2010
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Dinah Shore died of ovarian cancer just short of her seventy-seventh birthday, on February 24, 1994.
Dinah Shore. 2009
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