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Sentence Examples He was a tall man, in his late fifties, with dark, speckled hair and darker eyes. As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly. By 1960, she had produced Jameson's Raid, becoming a noted historian in her fifties. An employee in his early thirties may well expect to retire at an earlier age than employees in their late fifties. I'm amazed the number of my married women friends who've played away since their fifties. My people came from Bucks, England, and emigrated to the States in the early fifties. Large pictures of fifties stars hung along the walls and a song from the musical Grease played on the jukebox in the corner. A short, bald and rather round gent in his late fifties waits in the arrival lounge carrying a placard that reads my name in bold capitals. The crucial distinction between the fifties and sixties lay in word, not in deed. The nanny was a woman in her fifties who decided to go travel and see the world with the rest of her life. This was in the early part of the 20th century, and from the fifties onwards that land became filled up with community facilities. During the fifties and the sixties more than 100,000 trees were cut down to allow for the enlargement of roads. Her achievements are even more remarkable for the fact that she only embarked on a university education in her fifties. As the baby-boomers enter their mid to late fifties the issue of how we care for the aged is never far from the news headlines. Lorenzo was now in his late fifties and the father of two girls and three boys, the eldest 13, the youngest in swaddling clothes. Belize is dotted with tiny colonies of Mennonites, most of whom immigrated in the fifties from Canada and Mexico. William, who was in his fifties, was discovered to be suffering from impotence. Mick was in his late fifties and is sadly missed by his wife Joan, brothers and sisters and a large circle of friends. Every true icon of the last couple of centuries has smoked, from voluptuous fifties film stars to odd-looking French philosophers. That teacher was Mr. Jeremy Wendell, and he was apparently in his middle to late fifties, as he had a great deal of gray in his hair now. Show More Sentences Haynes' film then becomes a melancholy commentary on the bigotry and snobbery of fifties Middle America. David Ellis has been involved with horses since grammar school and the late fifties. Very few men in their forties caught my eye but once in the fifties, they aged rapidly in comparison to their female counterparts. Now, in the late fifties, a debate began over whether to extend benefits to the unmarried. The chief reporter was a grey haired man, middle fifties, rimless spectacles. The older man grinned, a myriad of wrinkles submerging onto the weather tanned skin, exposing his real age of fifties. In the mid to late fifties, guys spent all their time souping up older cars with whatever parts they could find. Perhaps the emotion expressed here is in part a requiem for Jobim, the inventor of bossa, who died from cancer in his fifties. While courting Jeremy's mother in the fifties, he sewed her a dress for every date they had. The man, aged in his fifties, was shot in his car by bandits who tried to rob him after a visit to an automatic teller machine. She was in her early fifties and her death was learned of with great regret by all who knew her during her short stay. The fifties were free and easy if you endorsed the status quo, but repressive and suffocating if you did not. In the late fifties when high pressure water was reticulated throughout Waimairi County use of the water wheel ceased and it fell into disrepair. The couples who sit together on the benches are older, in their late twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, and so forth. The school enjoyed another brief period of intellectual liveliness in the nineteen fifties. For I suddenly seem to be encountering a new generation of stunningly attractive women in their fifties. Traditionally the score is kept on paper using tally marks for tens, grouping them into fifties. He was described as being aged in his late forties or fifties, with short, straight, grey hair. The vitality of Mason's society reflects fifties optimism, it tells us about the prosperity of its time, the optimism of the baby boom. There were references to the fifties, too, via short, tight angora sweaters in baby pink sprinkled with large white polka dots. Show More Sentences In the late fifties, for example, making art designed to live only in the present could embody a radical faith in fleetingness. My great aunts worked all through the fifties and sixties, on the farm or teaching school. The womanly power revered in primitive societies was within me, as I teased my hair and pulled up the starched petticoats of the late fifties. I began watching the company in the fifties, when a quintet of highly individual ballerinas reigned over the female roster. Like most female professionals, women of my age in their forties and fifties dress conservatively. He has reason to be concerned as his mother and grandfather on his maternal side died of a sudden heart attack in their late fifties. After briefly working with B.B. King in Memphis, Perkins barnstormed the South with Earl Hooker during the early fifties. The driver, a man in late forties, early fifties, slowly rose in view, obviously knocked to the side as the truck was hit from behind. Atherosclerosis poses the largest threat when people reach their forties or fifties. Busier than ever, she is happily married with two young children and plans to spend her fifties pleasing herself and exploring other avenues. Duncan's poetry of the forties and fifties is massively influenced by the Metaphysicals. I am now in my early fifties and fear that shares may crash in the year when I retire. Any suggestions? In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork. Unlike Norton and Margot, their career continued to flourish through the forties and fifties, but no longer as a brother act. They have a patent leather version of a fifties style trench coat and their own interpretation of the current high school craze. She wore chunky glasses and a skirt that looked like her mother had worn it in the fifties. Shawn was a greaser and Lila was dressed like she was from the fifties, poodle skirt and all. In his late fifties, his sandy-coloured hair is greying and a thick grey beard accentuates his rounded face. The songs are tricksily stylish pop that veers gleefully with unexpected time changes, and a charming fifties swing. Beside him sat a jovial fellow in his late forties or early fifties, with dark greying hair which was cropped short on the sides. Show More Sentences When a freelance writer in his fifties or sixties once came in to pitch stories, uninterested senior editors shunted him down to Macfarlane. Particle experiments in the fifties and sixties produced copious numbers of mesons and baryons named after letters in the Greek alphabet. Rabbits in particular almost ruined the grazing industry down here in the period from the twenties to the fifties. The older man looked to be in his early fifties, with dark brown hair beginning to silver at the temples, and dark chestnut eyes. He was smiling, a good-looking man in his early fifties with silvery hair and dark eyes and a practiced smile. I can only imagine the difficulty of a middle-aged woman getting a divorce in the fifties or sixties. Twiggy is one of a growing group of older women determined to look stunning well into their fifties and sixties. It must have been tough being an Irish kid growing up in the fifties and sixties with no father. Women in their fifties and sixties know who they are and understand their own value. Back in the fifties and sixties I produced a mass of work, most of which seems to have disappeared. Men don't see a significant decline in testosterone until they reach their late fifties or sixties. I was fortunate to grow up on the Swan Coastal Plain, near Perth, in the forties and fifties when much of the land was still uncleared. At the other end of the ten-room block, a couple in their fifties live in a dark, dank room. It was in the upper fifties or lower sixties tonight, and I'd say it was unseasonable but it was just as warm last year. Grandma was in her last fifties and was letting her hair grow gray naturally, which looked good for her. Now in his fifties, and prone to limp if his arthritis was playing him up, he was grateful for the chance to end his working life here. Mid fifties, chubby, buck teeth, grey hair and horn-rimmed glasses, Randall looked vaguely like that old British comedian Benny Hill. That point is sometime in the late forties or early fifties, making it harder to redeploy labor from struggling sectors. I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent. Throughout the fifties, in city after city, fluoridation became the subject of fierce debate. Show More Sentences Back in the early fifties people across the land followed the Redex trial intently, listening in for updates in the daily news broadcasts from their valve radiograms. He was probably in his mid fifties, with wiry build and silver hair. A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation. I found him intractable, dominating and intent on lecturing everyone about the way to do things, which in his case meant only the way they'd done things in the fifties. He pulled a huge roll of fifties and twenties from his pocket. Unlike most avant-garde composers from the fifties, Boulez has always found the physical act of making music a pleasurable exercise for both the ears and the spirit. When I was a kid in the fifties, the whole of our primary school would gather on the lawn while a bugle played off a scratchy record and the Head read the obligatory poem. Zootsuit spit-and-polish, like beboppers of the forties and fifties on the sleeves of Hatch's record albums, Ward is leaning against a black hearse, his face cold and blank. There was no doubt in my mind that he'd have a toothbrush moustache, his hair plastered back, a fifties dinner jacket, with a dickie bow, and greying temples. Mr. Bruce was a voice actor in many cartoons of the thirties, forties and fifties, most notably as the narrator of silly travelogues and newsreels. This is not entirely mischance, for if in the sixties the focus remained in the south, determined by the shadow of the past, in the fifties it moved decisively north. As far as retro fashion trends go, the fifties may be here to stay awhile. In the fifties, theatrical companies put on some fine productions whilst in the sixties and early seventies some of the top showbands graced the stage. The students ranged in age from their twenties to their fifties. The masked wrestler is now in his fifties, and probably incapable of pulling off a Boston crab, but his site keeps alive the memory of British wrestling's most enigmatic star. He was a small, bald man in his fifties with pebble glasses. A static caption on screen for several minutes on end is unusual today but was a staple of television graphics from the fifties to the early eighties. The postmodern feeling for style harmonises with the pictures, which would be classified as pop-art, and the furniture of the fifties and sixties. A great orator and man of the theatre, Jimmy won many awards in drama festivals during the fifties and sixties, winning the best actor award on more than one occasion. Well yes, compared to the drab fifties and khaki they probably were, but today their colours seem to be seen through a sepia veneer, and, sugar, that doesn't do it for me. Show More Sentences Back in the fifties I worked on a number of eight by four panels and can remember no great snags in the painting or the subsequent display and longevity of the results. Later, at school in the fifties, G.K. Chesterton was very much in vogue. To be sensitive in the fifties was, almost by definition, to be a reader. Well into her fifties, and with half her face semi-paralysed from a stroke many years earlier, she looked serene, yet somehow triumphant at the same time. Luckily the fifties were good productive years in terms of the financial return on wool and meat, just as the war years had been for many farmers. As far as Bangalore is concerned, the erstwhile City Improvement Trust Board was the forerunner in developing housing layouts as early as in the nineteen fifties. The age of the grandparents ranged from the early forties to mid fifties. He went on to say that the swelling optimism among pioneers of the forties, fifties and sixties had given way, in some cases, to mild despondency. After the War, Ilija returned home to Yugoslavia and created his first drawings and gouaches at the end of the 1950s when he was already in his fifties. The fifties story continues too with brightly coloured boxy jackets, pretty frocks, knife pleat dresses and printed dirndl skirt dominating the summer scene. One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance. As recently as the fifties, most clothes were made by dressmakers. Approximately 20 percent of the populations were men in their thirties, forties, and fifties. From the end of the second world war until the late fifties folk music was held in low regard. As elsewhere in Communist Europe the Soviet occupation of Poland met with armed resistance from the outset which continued into the fifties. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. Oh, we've been talking about constitutional reform since 1927. I've been going to these gabfests since the fifties. In the early fifties he was a frequent visitor to Dublin where he would share Patrick Swift's studio. In the fifties the need for a Klown vehicle was evident and a King Midget Frame was acquired and a Klown Kar was added. Several people are in front of me in line. The woman next in front of me is older, probably in her fifties. Show More Sentences For instance, the battle between prose poetry and poetry that follows a trochee, has been raging since the fifties, and has yet to abate. In the Japanese films of the fifties, Godzilla was played by a bloke in a monster suit destroying cardboard cities. During the forties, fifties and sixties, two impresarios dominated the field of British rep, mostly in the North. The jukebox belted out tunes from the fifties, and waiters shouted food orders to the cooks behind the enormous steel counter. Frederick or Derek Boothby was in his late fifties, the son of a naval officer and a daughter of the Earl of Limerick. The garcon was a small man in the fifties, inclined to corpulence, with a large head, large, blue-gray eyes, purplish lips, and blue-black hair cut pompadour. Dirk Bogarde wrote about his start at tiny Amersham rep in 1939, and Sir Michael Caine recounts his time spent at Horsham rep in the early fifties. This was part of the prosperity gospel that had troubled Reinhold Niebuhr so much in the fifties, but it was an idea just right for the acquisitive eighties. Mrs Stubbs, in her late fifties, retired from Douay Martyrs school in Hillingdon, west London, after helping it earn an education Oscar from schools inspectors last month. Examples from Classical Literature She said dispiritedly that it was 54, remembering vaguely that it was somewhere in the fifties. Up to the Christmas of that year he had kept the appearance of a man in his fifties. They came by fifties, or in clouds they came, swept by like a windstorm, and were gone. I 'll take you two to one in fifties that I act the host here this day twelvemonth. In villages they can be counted by tens, in towns by fifties. Yousuf has played 90 test matches in which he scored 7,530 runs with 24 centuries and 33 fifties. He was a short, rectangular little man in his fifties named Spencer. She becomes entangled in a web of lies and deceit stretching from the communist blacklists in the fifties to the nearsighted actions of the Patriot Act. Find more words! 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What is the adjective for fifties? What is the noun for fifties? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words fifths fifthly fifth grade fifth column Fifth Amendment Fifth fiftieth Fiftieth fifty fifty-eight fifty-eighth fifty-fifth 7-letter Words Starting With f fi fif fift fifti fiftie