eighties

How To Use eighties In A Sentence

• If Estelle is in her eighties but looks a good deal younger, then why wouldn’t “Susan” just assume she’s in her sixties or seventies? CHECKOUT • by Sonia Suedfeld
• Hats were popular in the eighties though mostly on girls, so wearing my fedora was a given. The Devil’s in the Diva
• The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh has just announced an Eighties all-nighter, featuring saccharine delights such as Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
• This has provoked anger among some Labour veterans who spent the Eighties in vicious battles with the impossibilist left to return the party to electability. Despite their hopes of a great revival, the left got left behind
• The Sixties versus the Eighties, in fact. The question is - does it work?
• Once we hit our eighties the temptation is to stay indoors and just sit around. Times, Sunday Times
• She sees a bigger picture. ‘It's all about defining a fulfilled life in a culture that has no real experience of people in their eighties and nineties.’
• In particular, I can't stand the central atrium; it gives me a bad eighties feeling - of wine bars, terrycloth sweatbands, neon flamingos.
• It almost has the look of a city of the future, as seen in movies of the seventies and eighties!
• Giving priority to developmental work was appropriate in the circumstances of Nottinghamshire in the mid-eighties and still remains so in many respects.