How to Use seventy in a Sentence

seventy

noun
  • She is in her seventies.
  • There are some folks in their seventies that are being held hostage.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • This was not the case with the Knicks, not in the seventies and not now.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • That wasn’t the case in the early seventies.
    — Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The shield is a nod to the original shield that the team wore in the seventies.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • That was how life was for a child in the seventies, at least in Eugene.
    — Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The youngest are in their twenties and the oldest are in their seventies.
    — Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
  • Tupe, who is in her seventies, was back at the hotel, taking a nap.
    — Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s also something earnest in it, in a very seventies way.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In the eighteen-seventies, as now, most people who bought stocks and bonds were well off.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • One of the women was in her seventies and the other in her eighties.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 June 2025
  • This is a person who was in their seventies who was demented.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Tamarkin’s book is a kind of time capsule of the late sixties and early seventies.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Some of them were older than I, in their sixties and seventies.
    — Geoffrey Owens, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2020
  • In Europe during the seventies, there was no such thing as frozen food.
    — Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This was the seventies and the eighties and underground was a thing.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • The sport was very cruel in those decades, the sixties, the seventies and part of the eighties.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • In spaceflight terms, six landings on the moon back in the sixties and seventies doesn't mean much.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • By the late seventies, my family was back in Harlem.
    — Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The members, now in their seventies, had been laying low ever since.
    — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Sporadic culls were carried out between the seventies and the nineties.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
  • But Simmons and Stanley are both in their seventies at this point.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
  • This compares to peers’ average in the mid-eighties, with some even in the high seventies.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024
  • But more impressive even than Lisa, was a couple in their mid-seventies.
    — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Since the seventies, Nelson has ended his shows with a gospel medley.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • It was found under a massive concrete slab, along with a pair of stockings and a penny from the seventies.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
  • What started the Bronx’s fires in the nineteen-sixties and seventies?
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Several ruggedly handsome men played the part in the seventies and eighties in the ads.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The Holloways and the Sniders, who were then nearing their seventies, had been friends for decades.
    — Matthew Bremner, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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