Wiktionary
num. The cardinal number immediately following seventy-one and preceding seventy-three.
WordNet
adj. being two more than seventy [syn: 72, lxxii]
Usage examples of "seventy-two".
ERS-2, launched three years later, was capable of charting Earth’s ozone layer every seventy-two hours, thus allowing those nations to watch out for any sign of Morning Star at work.
They fed the stone lamp between their knees, and nibbled at the half-warm sealmeat, and watched the black soot gather on the roof for seventy-two long hours.
He has slept only six point three hours in the past seventy-two and is in serious need of rest.
Whereas, we have already seen, that the tape-measure gives seventy-two feet for the skeleton of a large sized modern whale.
Whereas, we have already seen, that the tape-measure gives seventy-two feet for the skeleton of a large-sized modern whale.