Use seventy in a sentence
Sentences starting with seventy
- Seventy quarters of grain had also been carted away. [2]
- Seventy years are gone since, and where now is his dream? [5]
- Seventy is old enough--after that, there is too much risk. [5]
- Seventy years elapsed, after the exploration, before the river's borders had a white population worth considering; and nearly fifty more before the river had a commerce. [5]
Sentences ending with seventy
- Adrian hastily calculated that she was not far from seventy. [10]
- She might be seventy. [6]
- I have a notion I can tell a poet that gets himself up just as I can tell a make-believe old man on the stage by the line where the gray skullcap joins the smooth forehead of the young fellow of seventy. [6]
- As they came near to the landing-stage whence the ferry started, she wanted to know how old he should suppose the Roman leech to be; and again he avoided answering, for Galen was above eighty, and Serenus scarcely seventy. [10]
- I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [5]
- Curiously enough, the Honourable Brush Bascom and the Honourable Jacob Botcher join Mr. Crewe in his complaint, and reiterate that it is an outrage that a man of such ability and deserving prominence should be among the submerged four hundred and seventy. [9]
- That day, and for many days thereafter, Mr. Crewe spent some time--as was entirely proper--among the back seats, making the acquaintance of his humbler fellow members of the submerged four hundred and seventy. [9]
- With the plain fact before them that the average life of man is less than thirty-four years, few would be willing, if the choice were offered, to compromise on seventy. [4]
- She is the chief character in Middleton's play of the "Roaring Girl"; and after a varied life as a thief, cutpurse, pickpocket, highwayman, trainer of animals, and keeper of a thieves' fence, she died in peace at the age of seventy. [4]
- Ulrich was left alone here among this miserable rabble with nobody to care for him, for our old maid-servant was seventy. [10]
Short sentences using seventy
- It has seventy subscribers. [5]
- I'm seventy years old. [5]
- It is seventy miles long. [5]
- Seventy. [5]
Sentences containing seventy two or more times
- In the first place, I'd have more pride, and in the second place, if I really loved a man, seventy five thousand or seventy five million dollars wouldn't help me any. [9]
- They would "go on," if I understand them, not to seven, or seventy, only, but to seventy times seven, if they could find patients. [3]
- An honest laborer digs coal at about seventy cents a day, while the President digs abstractions at about seventy dollars a day. [7]
More example sentences with the word seventy in them
- Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. [7]
- But at seventy years old I find that memory of peculiar value to me. [5]
- During the seventy years I have lived I have grown to have but little faith in outward demonstration, to believe in deeds and attainments rather than expressions. [9]
- I was seventy yards off, then, and scrambling up a great bowlder at the roadside. [5]
- You say you would almost give your place in heaven for seventy or eighty dollars. [7]
- Captain Newport arrived with a new supply of seventy persons. [4]
- At seventy, you, with a few fellow-passengers, are on a raft. [6]
- This is he whom _I_ would show what grandeur was, in my house of seventy rooms and seven-and-twenty servants! [5]
- His only companions were the Indians, who in summer-time came and went, getting stores of him, which he in turn got from a post of the Hudson's Bay Company, seventy miles up the coast. [11]
- Mrs. John Grier was to be paid during her life a yearly stipend of twenty thousand dollars from the business; she also received a grant of seventy thousand dollars. [11]
- Sir Benjamin Brodie was seventy years old before he left his physiological and surgical studies to indulge in psychological speculations. [3]
- The next longest was from here to Sidon--say about sixty or seventy miles. [5]
- This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
- And I wish to urge upon you this--which I think is wisdom--that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. [5]
- Now I wish to say just one entirely serious word: I have reached a time of life, seventy years and a half, where none of the concerns of this world have much interest for me personally. [5]
- It only destroyed three thousand and seventy lives last year by collisions, and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty by running over heedless and unnecessary people at crossings. [5]
- Hadn't skeins of thread enough to represent them all--but you get an idea--perfect trestle-work of bridges for seventy two miles: Jeff Thompson and I fixed all that, you know; he's to get the contracts and I'm to put them through on the divide. [5]
- There are seventy thousand (and possibly one hundred thousand) Chinamen on the Pacific coast. [5]
- You would not think that in a little wee primer--for that is what the Autobiography is--a person with a tumultuous career of seventy years behind her could find room for two or three pages of padding of this kind, but such is the case. [5]
- A little before the year 1550 it began to grow very slowly, and so continued for about seventy years. [6]
- It indicates that the stretch of time covered by the piece is seventy years or more. [5]
- Within the week the price went up to seventy dollars and afterward to a hundred and fifty, but nothing could make that man yield. [5]
- The counting by the micrometer took him a week.--You have, my full-grown friend, of these little couriers in crimson or scarlet livery, running on your vital errands day and night as long as you live, sixty-five billions, five hundred and seventy thousand millions. [6]
- It knocks at the gate of every organ seventy or eighty times in a minute, calling upon it to receive its supplies and unload its refuse. [6]
- He peers among the asterisks of the triennial catalogue of the University for the names of graduates who have been seventy years out of college and remain still unstarred. [6]
- I will now teach, offering my way of life to whomsoever desires to commit suicide by the scheme which has enabled me to beat the doctor and the hangman for seventy years. [5]
- From the first taking of our national census to the last are seventy years, and we find our population at the end of the period eight times as great as it was at the beginning. [7]
- The conveyance from Star City (its locality) to Virginia City will cost seventy dollars per ton; from Virginia to San Francisco, forty dollars per ton; from thence to Liverpool, its destination, ten dollars per ton. [5]
- After Smolensk Napoleon sought a battle beyond Dorogobuzh at Vyazma, and then at Tsarevo-Zaymishche, but it happened that owing to a conjunction of innumerable circumstances the Russians could not give battle till they reached Borodino, seventy miles from Moscow. [2]
- It is contemptibly small compared with our seventy millions of people. [4]
- She was between sixty and seventy years old; her face, framed, as it were, into a picture by the lace veil, was exquisitely symmetrical in its form, intellectual, kind and benevolent in its expression. [10]
- Now, the other side of seventy, I have preserved, as my chiefest virtue, modesty. [5]
- A man can shake it so that the movement shall be shown in a vessel of water nearly seventy feet below the summit, and higher up the vibration is like that of an earthquake. [6]
- Day before yesterday seventy, yesterday eighty-six deaths, and among them two of my colleagues. [10]
- He was then seventy, but his freshness and vivacity made him appear younger. [10]
- He was over seventy, but he could have given me nine-tenths of his strength and still had all his age entitled him to. [5]
- She is near seventy, and for thrice seven years she has gone by the name of grave-haunting Kusaja. [10]
- I am born seventy year ago in Gascon. [9]
- It was only seventy when we came in to dinner. [9]
- I was worth seventy thousand dollars when I was your age. [11]
- A house with seventy rooms--think of that!--and seven and twenty servants! [5]
- There are over seventy newspapers in Illinois opposing Buchanan, only three or four of which support Mr. Fillmore, all the rest going for Fremont. [7]
- He was now seventy miles from Cottonwoods, and, he believed, close to the canyon where the cattle trail must surely turn off and go down into the Pass. [13]
- The bachelor of seventy had been so ill cared for in his lonely, uncomfortable home that her kind heart had urged her to take charge of him. [10]
- There are also seventy churches existing, and a lot more projected. [5]
- That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. [5]
- Their king's country residence was at the famous Garden of Hesperides, seventy miles down the coast from here. [5]
- When fifty is reached, somehow sixty does not look so old as it once used to, and seventy is still afar off. [6]
- Three-fourths of the Quaker City's passengers were between forty and seventy years of age! [5]
- I call forty pounds light for a muskallonge; fifty to seventy is about my figure. [4]
- One of these persons is the old lord, tall, erect, square-shouldered, white-haired, stern-browed, a man who shows character in every feature, attitude, and movement, and carries his seventy years as easily as most men carry fifty. [5]
- He is the owner of a castle and some seventy square miles of land in Scotland alone. [9]
- Neithotep, a man of seventy years, was seated in a splendid apartment. [10]
- The present occupants of Mars Saba, about seventy in number, are all hermits. [5]
- But just think of a man nearly seventy years old who has not a mind of his own on such matters! [5]
- I look back now, from this far distance of seventy years, and note with sorrow the stages of that dream's destruction. [5]
- A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. [6]
- Thirty-three small-pica lines news in a daily journal in a King's Capital of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants is surely not an overdose. [5]
- She knew me nearly seventy years ago. [5]
- I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else. [5]
- I gave him my early history briefly, dwelling but casually upon the position enjoyed in Maryland by my family; but I spoke of my grandfather, now turning seventy, gray-haired in the service of King and province. [9]
- The poet Thomas Moore spent several months in Bermuda more than seventy years ago. [5]
- With her three millions of population, and seventy outside millions to draw upon, she can afford it, she can support it. [5]
- The next white man who camped there, did it about a hundred and seventy years later--in 1834. [5]
- Now, as he looked at Fleda, his old eyes gleamed, and he showed a double row of teeth, not one of which was imperfect, though he was seventy years of age. [11]
- Ah, ha, my little Lothario, I have caught you--a bachelor too, with time on his hands, and the right side of seventy as well! [11]
- He came up like a log, and must have weighed seventy pounds. [9]
- This enormous block lies there, squared and ready for the builders' hands--a solid mass fourteen feet by seventeen, and but a few inches less than seventy feet long! [5]
- At seventy years it used to be said that the little glass was full. [6]
- His description of it is half lamentable, half amusing, for at that time it was attended by thirty students, for whom seventy professors were employed. [10]
- There's a man in Paris to-day who owns seventy Millet pictures. [5]
- Still she sat in her window beside the lilac bush, lost in memories of a stout, rosy lass who had followed a stalwart husband up a broad river into the wilderness some seventy years agone in Indian days--Weathersfield Massacre days. [9]
- He was never in easy circumstances until he was nearly seventy years old. [6]
- In our day, if you travel by river from the southernmost of these three cut-offs to the northernmost, you go only seventy miles. [5]
- The high play I readily promised to avoid in the future, and I signed myself,--well, it matters not after seventy years. [9]
- Of the one hundred members composing the two branches of that body, about seventy were Democrats. [7]
- He has one hundred and sixteen school-houses, and pays out more than seventy thousand dollars a year in teachers' salaries. [5]
- He never lost, however,--in public at least, or before Lise's family,--the fine careless, jaunty air of the demonstrator, of the free-lance for whom seventy miles an hour has no terrors; the automobile, apparently, like the ship, sets a stamp upon its votaries. [9]
- Anybody in this house who has reached the turn of life--sixty, or seventy, or even fifty, or along there--when he goes back along his history, there he finds it mile-stoned all the way with the lost opportunity, and you know how pathetic that is. [5]
- Everybody has a hope of going beyond that, so that if seventy were proposed as the year at birth, there would no doubt be as much dissatisfaction as there is at the present loose arrangement. [4]
- He commonly spends his seventy years, if so many are given him, in getting ready to enjoy himself. [4]
- Nelly Nealy put her damages at one hundred and fifty thousand and stung him for seventy five. [9]
- On the stairway he met the German, and drawing his pistol knocked him down and rifled his pockets of some seventy dollars. [5]
- The tunnel would have to be seventy feet long, and would then strike the ledge at the same dept that a shaft twelve feet deep would have reached! [5]
- At home we have seventy millions of people, and although I say it myself that shouldn't, there is not one person among them all but would trust me with untold fish-hooks. [5]
- An "Index Society" has been formed in England, already numbering about one hundred and seventy members. [3]
- Here you get handsome business suits at from ten to twenty dollars, and in Leghorn you can get an overcoat for fifteen dollars that would cost you seventy in New York. [5]
- At seventy he had returned to the world, more beloved, more honored than ever before. [5]
- Well, I should ha' thought there was seventy devils in that gal last night, from the way she carr'd on. [6]
- He was a gentleman more than seventy years of age, and his thoroughly good and gentle face and earnest and sincere manner imprinted the unmistakable stamp of truth upon every statement which fell from his lips. [5]
- But I presently found out for myself why and wherefore they pitied me; for seven who called me fatherless, seventy would speak of me as motherless when they addressed me with pity. [10]
- The trim hedges, for seventy years neglected, had grown incontinent. [9]
- Once within, you find yourself in an arched cavern about one hundred and sixty feet long, one hundred and twenty wide, and about seventy high. [5]
- Consider what a fifth part of the reading-matter of an American daily paper issued in a city of one hundred and seventy thousand inhabitants amounts to! [5]
- One of these fellows was about seventy or upwards, and had a bald head and very gray whiskers. [5]
- Hilary was sixty-five, Euphrasia seventy, which is not old for frugal people, though it is just as well to add that there had never been a breath of scandal about either of them, in Ripton or elsewhere. [9]
- Note that, Philippus!--But do not take my questioning ill.--I cannot help wondering how a man of one and thirty and one of seventy should have been studying in the high schools at the same time? [10]
- I see the cost of one of them is two hundred and seventy guineas. [6]
- In such a case I can only commend him to the seventy thousand answers just in from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. [7]
- It is a body that seventy millions of people ought to take care of with little difficulty. [4]
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