seventy-eight
noun
sev·en·ty-eight
ˌse-vən-tē-ˈāt 
ˌse-bᵊm-,
-dē-ˈāt
1
: a number that is one more than 77 see Table of Numbers
2
: a phonograph record designed to be played at 78 revolutions per minute
—usually written 78
seventy-eight
adjective
seventy-eight
pronoun, plural in construction
Examples of seventy-eight in a Sentence
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Over several days, beginning on February 4th, the government sent a hundred and seventy-eight Venezuelan migrants apprehended on U.S. soil to the site.
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Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
By 1960, more than a hundred and seventy-eight thousand people lived there, and about thirty thousand people worked at Gary Works.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
But Lynch, who died last week, at seventy-eight, made films in which every cheerful surface seemed to obscure an eerie reality.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Iconoclastic director David Lynch, who with his darkly surreal films brought the avant-garde shrieking and scratching into the mainstream, has died at the age of seventy-eight.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Jan. 2025
Three hundred and seventy-eight fans, the vast majority English, were arrested under German police powers to prevent further trouble following minor outbreaks of disorder.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 13 July 2024
The speed limit was fifty miles per hour; according to a Tulsa police officer, who pulled him over, Keith was going seventy-eight.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The left won the most seats, at a hundred and seventy-eight, followed by Ensemble, Macron’s centrist alliance (a hundred and fifty), and then the far-right National Rally (a hundred and forty-two).
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
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Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
By 1960, more than a hundred and seventy-eight thousand people lived there, and about thirty thousand people worked at Gary Works.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
But Lynch, who died last week, at seventy-eight, made films in which every cheerful surface seemed to obscure an eerie reality.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Iconoclastic director David Lynch, who with his darkly surreal films brought the avant-garde shrieking and scratching into the mainstream, has died at the age of seventy-eight.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Jan. 2025
Three hundred and seventy-eight fans, the vast majority English, were arrested under German police powers to prevent further trouble following minor outbreaks of disorder.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 13 July 2024
The speed limit was fifty miles per hour; according to a Tulsa police officer, who pulled him over, Keith was going seventy-eight.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Whatever the reason—gold lust, bad luck, a malediction—the Prince de Conty continues to bring ill fortune upon those in its ambit, even two hundred and seventy-eight years after its demise.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
The left won the most seats, at a hundred and seventy-eight, followed by Ensemble, Macron’s centrist alliance (a hundred and fifty), and then the far-right National Rally (a hundred and forty-two).
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
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“Seventy-eight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seventy-eight. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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