Seventies is an English word with synonyms like decade or decennium. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Seventies in a sentence
Seventies meaning
plural of seventy
Using Seventies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of seventy
- Useful related words include: 1970s, decade, decennary, decennium.
- In the example corpus, seventies often appears in combinations such as: the seventies, seventies and, early seventies.
Context around Seventies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Seventies
- In this selection, "seventies" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, late, representing, nineteen, flair, max and film stand out and add context to how "seventies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the seventies and 1970s representing seventies for nineteen. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "seventies" sits close to words such as actionable, adopts and airwaves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with seventies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Citizens mobilized against corporate abuses in the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies. (11 words)
Leave a comment with your memories of the town centre in the Seventies. (13 words)
Easy to use (I'm in my seventies and don't like change!). (13 words)
Available in classic black as well as honey (pictured), which we prefer, they have a real vintage feel about them – quality-wise, they look brand new, of course, but the design steps into Seventies flair with a dose of biker attitude. (41 words)
At the Munich Stadium, where they had gone to watch a game, the German kids mistook him for the African-American actor, Richard Roundtree, popularly known as Shaft He truly looked very much like Shaft in the late seventies. (39 words)
It takes place in New York City in the late seventies and early eighties and follows a family as they try to navigate their new dynamics as the father, Marvin, has left his wife after coming out as gay. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
It may indicate omitted numbers where the spoken form is also capable of omissions, as ’70s for 1970s representing seventies for nineteen-seventies.
A retired woman in her seventies who did not wish to be named said: "We weren't in when it started so we didn't see much.
At the Munich Stadium, where they had gone to watch a game, the German kids mistook him for the African-American actor, Richard Roundtree, popularly known as Shaft He truly looked very much like Shaft in the late seventies.
Available in classic black as well as honey (pictured), which we prefer, they have a real vintage feel about them – quality-wise, they look brand new, of course, but the design steps into Seventies flair with a dose of biker attitude.
Back in the seventies, he says, nightclubs were all over, with live music everywhere you went.
Citizens mobilized against corporate abuses in the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies.
During our renovations we even uncovered old labels on the beams in the storerooms for cars from the sixties and seventies like Zephyr’s and Cortina’s which we obviously retained and preserved.
He wants the film to be orange, the color of the seventies—of hippies, of the California sun, of Indian spices.
It was a boater who told me credit scores were invented in the Seventies,” Max says.
Leave a comment with your memories of the town centre in the Seventies.
More South Korean senior citizens are dying than ever before, with the postwar baby boom generation now reaching the seventies.
Otherwise a fun premiere, though I am wondering why contemporary American music was apparently being played on Soviet radio in the seventies.
Such was how wild Hopper's set and off-set were, and these antics are the subject of Peter Biskind’s book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, about the seventies film-making generation.
These pictures of Morecambe promenade take a trip down memory lane from the Seventies through to the 2020s.
Bruce J. Schulman is the William Huntington professor of history at Boston University and author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society.
Easy to use (I'm in my seventies and don't like change!).
He traveled and advanced his skills in the printing business, in large press and printing operations, including a long period in Chicago, Illinois, during the late sixties and early seventies.
In the seventies, one of my favorite TV-theme songs was ’s, a thing of beauty from the Robert Blake-as-crusty street-detective vehicle.
In this mystery thriller, Vijayaraghavan portrays a retired military officer in his seventies, embodying a relentless grumpiness that defines his character.
It takes place in New York City in the late seventies and early eighties and follows a family as they try to navigate their new dynamics as the father, Marvin, has left his wife after coming out as gay.
Common combinations with seventies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: