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Sentence Examples She's a heavyset woman, now in her sixties with pure white hair and too much lipstick. This kind of housing owes its origin to the colonization of Manhattan's defunct industrial and warehouse spaces by trendy, arty, sixties types. Thus, only in his early sixties did Hilbert truly proceed to create proof theory and metamathematics. In the sixties and seventies, weddings were held early in the day and were finished by 7pm. In the sixties, probably even in the seventies, such an argument would have been unthinkable. Your work from the sixties and seventies would certainly lend support to that claim. In the fifties, sixties and early seventies John was an integral part of the art scene in his native Cork. Robinson is now in her sixties, three times the age of many television presenters. Back in the sixties, I'd found a copy of the sheet music to this record but could never uncover the actual vinyl recording. In the sixties, the blue-collar jobs that supported previous generations of urban blacks moved out of town, beyond the reach of public transit. When a freelance writer in his fifties or sixties once came in to pitch stories, uninterested senior editors shunted him down to Macfarlane. For barefoot boys as young as four in tatty shirts, to turbaned men in their sixties, football is a passion. I will adorn my face and arms with day-glo flowers and whatever other groovy symbols signify the sixties. James, a quiet, unassuming man, was in his late sixties and had spent all his working life in England. 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. In the early sixties a divorce could still shake a little town like a minor earthquake. It must have been tough being an Irish kid growing up in the fifties and sixties with no father. I don't have a favourite band now, but in the sixties I really liked Country Joe and the Fish. Women in their fifties and sixties know who they are and understand their own value. Show More Sentences Back in the fifties and sixties I produced a mass of work, most of which seems to have disappeared. There was a breakfast morning, a sixties day for everybody in the school and some Easter egg raffles. White hairs and a few wrinkles painted a portrait of a man in his sixties, perhaps late sixties. Men don't see a significant decline in testosterone until they reach their late fifties or sixties. He said Culleens school was built in the sixties and badly needed an extension and other improvements. Tom, a very strong man in his sixties had been ill for quite some time and bore his illness with courage and fortitude. Another example was of a boilermaker in his early sixties who had developed problems with both knees and one ankle. His favourites are biographies of sixties and seventies musicians, and pop and rock stars. You were busy, but this was the freewheeling sixties, this was a period of unfaithfulness, and that was a challenge to you. 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. Many of her siblings and nieces and nephews have visited her since her move to Zimbabwe in the sixties. They're all 6 feet tall and in their sixties or seventies and they're spirited and feisty. As they receded in the late fifties and early sixties the political space in which to develop a progressive agenda expanded accordingly. She is so spry, alert, and enthusiastic that it is difficult to imagine you are talking to a woman in her sixties. Both originated from the mid sixties, one being a cool white notchback, the other a red hot fastback. But perhaps the generation of the noughties, like that of the sixties, is starting to realise that cynical detachment just gets you screwed. The furniture included a forties dresser, an oval sixties coffee table and two much newer Scandinavian-style bookcases of unvarnished pine. Peter started building gypsy caravans as a boy and though now in his sixties he still makes, repairs and paints them. When he sneaked a glimpse of his body in a fly-spotted mirror, Sam saw a hawk-nosed, dusty-haired, broad-shouldered man in his early sixties. With Roge and a host of sixties bikini-babes warming up the brown leather a DBS was finally seen as a bit of all right. Show More Sentences Well, David, catenaccio is a style of football pioneered by Helenio Herrera's Internazionale side in the sixties, I think. Even Andy Warhol's sixties pop art was a study of the power of iconography and branding. Already in his sixties it was his last attempt to make a success of the final years of his life. Her parents moved over to the islands in the late sixties and fell in love with the sport of surfing. But this is just so run-of-the-mill, the pap churned out by the ton in the early sixties. Alternatively, if I give up the make-believe and stick rigidly to the truth, I've a fighting chance of making my late sixties. The style is inspired by a futuristic vision of the world as depicted by the TV shows and films of the swinging sixties. For all the freak imagery and wanton derangement, there was a certain plausibility to the pop stars of the sixties. John Benson was regarded by many in the trade, as the definitive continuity announcer of the sixties. I was first introduced to the gay slang language of Polari by listening to Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne in the sixties as a child. The band began to play a sixties medley and couples returned to the dance floor. All of the participants were female, and their ages ranged from the early forties to the early sixties. This being the sixties, most of them felt it was a matter of free speech, which really got his goat. Oasis also stakes out very different sonic terrain, nodding to electronic pop, dub reggae, and sixties psychedelia. Debbie is due to perform her eclectic mix of pop, country and sixties covers at the golf club this Saturday. Particle experiments in the fifties and sixties produced copious numbers of mesons and baryons named after letters in the Greek alphabet. The Darwinian struggle for a private kindergarten spot is also evidence of the triumph of the cognitive elitism that began in the sixties. Concerning the film version, as far as I'm aware it was filmed in the sixties by a Polish director, whose name escapes me. The group has been described as the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties. Rolfe Kent's sunny up-tempo soundtrack bubbles ironically along, its sixties Italian jazz the quintessence of carefree. Show More Sentences She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins. She is in her sixties, and without smoking weed, she has difficulty moving. We now know that our soldiers were as radicalized by the sixties as the college protesters. This is what happened in the sixties and early seventies, making radical feminism, and radicalisms of other varieties, possible. I took him to be a man in his sixties, strong-faced, intelligent and well-informed. Even though he was in his mid sixties and had just survived a serious illness, Hoet jumped at the offer of new employment. Suddenly the ratty old sixties sofa that came with the flat is starting to look quite comfy. Not unless there's a mortgage company that takes down payments in sixties Superhero comic books and Great Aunt Martha's willowware. The crucial distinction between the fifties and sixties lay in word, not in deed. We have seen quite a few people coming out of the woodwork selling the krugerrands they got in the sixties. During the fifties and the sixties more than 100,000 trees were cut down to allow for the enlargement of roads. As examples, she worked on lampreys in the early sixties, molluscs and lancelet in the early seventies, and teleosts in the early eighties. They lived in Thorncliffe Road, off Fell Lane, Keighley from 1936 to the late sixties. He is an old man, in his late-fifties, early sixties, hair a lustrous white, dressed in a respectable suit. Similarly I can recall seeing blackcock, grouse, ring ousel and merlin on Exmoor until the mid sixties. This is the latest incarnation in a range of easily driven British roadsters dating back to the sixties. A woman in her sixties recited a poem from her loose-leaf notebook, neatly covered in plastic. The singers' repertoire ranges from sixties pop songs to madrigals and audience participation is always encouraged. My great aunts worked all through the fifties and sixties, on the farm or teaching school. Earl is in his sixties, black, and scarred on his arms and I would assume the rest of him. Show More Sentences It's made from a fire extinguisher, a scuba backpack, and a sixties gold-fleck motorcycle helmet. Whittier started playing the flute some time in the late sixties and his dedication to the bamboo flute has stood the test of time. Missus Martinez began to learn to write Tewa in the nineteen sixties when she was fifty-four. I had a few seasons down there at the Alliance meat works in the late sixties. In February of 1999, Esther Chavez Cano, a dedicated feminist in her late sixties, opened a rape and assault crisis center in Ciudad Juarez known as Casa Amiga. 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. The were first formed in the sixties to protect against cold war menaces and insurgent forces such as the terrorist organization known as the London Underground. Hailing, as he did, from Memphis, having grown up during the Purist tensions of the sixties and seventies, he was already sensitized to the rhetoric. My Dad, an adman in the sixties, was a terrific fan of game shows. For anyone still to be besotted by it in his sixties bespeaks a truly weird dedication to teenage culture, wherein almost nothing of importance is ever done or said. Indeed, it could fairly be said to have started the long period of unrelieved Celtic supremacy which characterised the late sixties and early seventies. 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. 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. And above all, what if those bands aren't the overripe gods of the sixties and seventies, but the inescapable products of them, either in worship or in reaction or both? It had worked when Romney contrasted himself with the disastrously right-wing Goldwater in the early sixties. My eldest sister had studied home economics in the late sixties. Mr Holt has bad memories of the drought years of the sixties when hundreds of kangaroos were dropping dead around the homestead and the station bores. You thought the moral rot took hold in the sixties, didn't you? He was also involved in rowing for many years and had few equals in that sport especially when he rowed in the Bluebird in the late sixties and early seventies. 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. Show More Sentences His announcement made at the convention to select candidates for that ballot brings the curtain down on a political career stretching back to the sixties. This was, after all, the Swinging sixties in London and the country had moved on. By the mid-1990s, Kinkade had become to the evangelical movement what Peter Max was to the psychedelic sixties. Will they manage to mature, in tandem, into a team capable of bringing silverware back to Ayrshire or will the swinging sixties remain, in perpetuity, as the halcyon era? Marriage was indoctrinated to us as the norm when growing up and I was growing up during the swinging sixties and seventies, so there were very mixed messages! Since 1985 they have been replacing exotics with native species, although they have retained a waratah planted in the late sixties, as well as callunas and ericas. Soft and natural made from the most futuristic materials possible, this year's trend gives way to the super modern as well as the modernized return of the sixties classics. He seemed to be in his sixties, with a balding pate and wrinkled face. The postmodern feeling for style harmonises with the pictures, which would be classified as pop-art, and the furniture of the fifties and sixties. Politically the sixties generation came to maturity in the eighties. It produced a kind of craze like the Beatlemania in the sixties. Accordingly, I needed to see an old photograph or advertisement that would allow me to personally authenticate the presence of some mythical sixties pop giant in my town. I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent. As we move ever closer to November, the weather is switching to a uniform foggy grey that wakens memories of my time in Lincolnshire back in the very early sixties. In the sixties, I would have called them Birchers, not having the knowledge of the far right back then to distinguish amongst different flavors of rightwing lunacy. Ever since Mary Quant swung onto the sixties scene with her pelmets, the mini has been keeping women addicted to exercise classes. Though such iatrophobia has always been with us, it assumed an especially virulent form in the sixties. They had no wedding party, only an Australian couple in their sixties, the woman in a great deal of pancake and blusher and a lairy fur jacket. Presiding over the trial was Sir William Chapple, a senior and respected judge in his early sixties. The former is the most capped British and Irish Lion of all time, having completed four tours with the Lions in the sixties and seventies. Show More Sentences Cable recalls he was the one who suggested that Jones be the singer, as his dad was a singer back in the sixties who supported Roy Orbison. The first cargo ships specially fitted for the transport of large quantities of cars came into service in the early sixties. In the course of the sixties, most of its staff were taken off the project and used for other tasks. During the forties, fifties and sixties, two impresarios dominated the field of British rep, mostly in the North. John Paul was youthful in his sixties with a radiant charisma. The jukebox plays a medley of sixties tunes, an apt and agreeable feature. Then in the sixties the effects of acid rain hit the rivers and gradually most of the fish stocks were lost. This contemporized his image and allowed him to evolve with the changes that took place in the sixties. She is a strong and warm-hearted and hard-working farmer in her early sixties. She is built like a fireplug. The first five sporadic groups were discovered by Mathieu in the late nineteenth century. The remaining twenty-one were discovered in the nineteen sixties and seventies. Abbott was in his late sixties and looked like a retired Fortune 500 executive in a three-piece suit, complete with manicured nails and a Rolex watch. No one gets named Larry anymore. It's had it as a name. Think of someone called Larry and you automatically conjure up a guy drinking beer in a sixties rec room. In other words, surrealism celebrated underground forms of culture a long time before the Beat generation and the counterculture of the nineteen sixties. Twenty years later, though in his sixties and devotedly married, he was reinvigorated by a love affair with a much younger woman, who later became his second wife. White, very well-off, male in his sixties succeeds white, very well-off, male in his sixties, who himself succeeded white, very welloff, male in his sixties. In the late sixties she started to work with the lighter Wagner roles, like Elsa in Lohengrin and Senta in The Flying Dutchman, roles that became her trade mark. This recoil from crowd-pleasing pablum continued through the sixties. Harold was an accomplished and very competitive athlete, boxing and playing football in his youth and playing paddleball and later softball regularly into his sixties. The influx of women into the work force, beginning in the sixties, was bound to challenge the male conception of the office as playpen, even if that office was the Oval one. Well, jungle emerged from rave culture, which fused late sixties psychedelic utopianism with the postdisco music that came out of Chicago and Detroit. Show More Sentences In the prologue, we meet Stool Pigeon, who in his late sixties has become a kind of neighborhood historian attempting to preserve fading community memories. In the sixties he was one of the creative geniuses behind the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band, a combo which managed to mix jazz, pop and comedy together with great success. Examples from Classical Literature The respect for the sixties was an article of faith, a dogma of dogmas in the Nineties. No modern instance of wrong and oppression can approach this Fructidor of the sixties in the South. For several years he was a missionary at St. Catharines, Canada, and died there in the sixties. The plainest of civilian garb of the late sixties was in the vitrine, and near by was the bed in which he actually managed to die. The Aldershot of the sixties was a very different place to what it is to-day. And we collected the drawings and publications of the sixties. Tony, Charis, and Roz met in the sixties, when all three were students at the university. Unlike in the sixties and seventies, critics of black theatre should not be drum majors to help theatre organizations build audiences. That Frenchman who came here in the sixties for antiquities? In the middle sixties she had beaten by a day and a half the steam mail-boat from Hong Kong to Singapore. He was a tall, lean, gracious bald man in his early sixties. In the early sixties we believed in velocity and clearness and brilliancy. Find more words! 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