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Example sentences from the Web for sevensOf fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. The Story of Noah's Ark From the Bible’s Book of Genesis|The Daily Beast|March 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Things certainly seemed at sixes and sevens, as Roy phrased it, the next morning. Heriot's Choice|Rosa Nouchette Carey Amy wanted everything arranged in "sevens," as she expressed it. I'd rather do that and have you come right along home with me, for everything is at sixes at sevens. The Mystery of Mary|Grace Livingston Hill
Of these they reckoned 72, from which, by different arrangements in sevens, they produced 720. Willis's Current Notes, No. XV., March 1852|Various And this Wednesday most certainly was the day when matters were "at sixes and sevens" for Dorothy Kenway. The Corner House Girls Growing Up|Grace Brooks Hill
noun(functioning as singular) a Rugby Union match or series of matches played with seven players on each side Words nearby sevensSeven Hills of Rome, seven-inch, Seven Isles, seven-league boots, sevenpenny, sevens, Seven Sages, seven seas, seven-segment display, seven-seven, Seven Sleepers Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to sevensseptenary, hebdomad, heptad, septemviral, septennial, septuple, septuplicate |