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.
The Oklahoma bombing of 1995, which killed more than 160 people, emerged out of a netherworld of shadowy right-wing militias that grew up during the Eighties and early Nineties.
The Jamestown Foundation Jamestown is a unique organization founded in the early eighties to assist asylees and defectors from the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries.
They couldn't have gotten any firm to hire them as brokers, not when it was the Eighties and the market was booming and the Street was filled with ambitious preppies trying to make it in the business.
I want you to go back to the neighborhood where he used to live-in the old Germantown area, I think-the East Eighties. WORST FEARS REALIZED
Among these the weightiest was the silent George Washington. George Washington
It is the one redeemable band from the crop of Eighties Synth duos.
For anyone with eyes to see and a television to be parked in front of by benignly neglectful eighties parents Floella is of course best known for her exuberantly dungareed presenting work on Playschool and Playaway. Film | guardian.co.uk
Even when the economy in the Midwest came back in the late eighties, labor was still flat on its back.
The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform.
Unfortunately, the early nineteen-eighties were not perhaps the best years for small, traditional, inherited merchant banks. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
A person in their eighties is a thousand times more likely to develop cancer than someone in their thirties.
Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life.
He was one of the entrepreneurs of the eighties who made their money in property.
Gauzy, beaded, to-the-floor gowns that were slashed at the back (tastefully rather than tartily) made a pleasing antidote to Eighties-style excess. Top stories from Times Online
The Eighties career woman who had it all: looks, glamour, fast-track, moneyed lifestyle, husband, children.
And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement, the enormous increase in passenger traffic.
When I knew him he was well into his eighties and actively cultivated the eccentricities of the very old.
Abigail Irene is now in her eighties, not particularly mellowed with age. I asked the same question once.
What would that cynic who used to delight us on TV in the eighties with his elegant misanthropy have made of it all?
The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
The housing market was at its height in the eighties.
In the eighties and the nineties, unlike the seventies and for non-top forty bands today, they cared more about conformance which is how records got sold. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
Unfortunately, the early nineteen-eighties were not perhaps the best years for small, traditional, inherited merchant banks. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
I used to listen to John Peel in the late seventies and early eighties when radio one was still on AM only and you had to tune it exactly or you got Radio Moscow interfering.
I honestly thought it must be some kind of bootleg recording of one of the acoustic shows I did back in the late eighties.
In his eighties he could still improvise his signature double talk. Times, Sunday Times
The popular playground pastime of the Eighties is making a comeback - this time with a difference. Times, Sunday Times
My blonde phase came in the early Eighties. The Sun
Shah Alam II ruled well until his eighties and died as a sightless wretch dressed in rags when an army from Bengal led by General Gerald Lake stormed Delhi and Agra.
Of these last the weightiest is the one at first called simply 'Elegy', and later 'The Walk'. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
The songs on this album ooze a certain confidence, while also recalling some of the tinny sounds that were around in the Eighties. The Sun
Of these last the weightiest is the one at first called simply The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
But that was thirty-four years ago, and the marquess had been in his eighties at the time. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Anyway, the adverts in the eighties would feature kids with mullets eating vatfuls of the stuff and being consumed in an orange glow.
He considers the field much more difficult to break into than it was in the late eighties and early nineties - tightened budgets, fewer magazines buying fewer photo essays - and he doesn't sugar-coat that reality for his students.
It couldn't survive the unforgiving light of the eighties, and sloped off to die in embarrassed solitude.
As the late eighties approached interest in disco was reawakened.
I will be by your side to help you remove the weightiest obstacles, but you have to do the work yourself. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
Now we're not forced to retire at any age and will still be around into our eighties. Times, Sunday Times
She appeared equally stoical until the prosecutor lit into her, charging that Tony essentially committed his alleged crimes for her - to make sure that should he predecease his mother, a distinct possibility when you're in your eighties yourself -- she wouldn't be left out of the will, which was Mrs. Astor's apparently fervent desire "There was no love lost between Mrs. Astor and Charlene," Ms. Loewy told the jury. Ralph Gardner Jr.: Inside the Astor Trial: The People vs. Anthony Marshall and Francis Morrissey
Back in the early eighties, one of the maintenance employees asked if I knew how much it cost to line every wastebasket with a plastic bag: $1,200 a year.
Unions exercise a preponderant influence only because, in the Eighties, the country abandoned socialist political programmes under a socialist president.
We've performed our various talents, including a tranny boi band, my eighties retro jazz dance, and someone giving birth to a doll. Elena Azzoni: How A Lesbian Beauty Queen Spent A Year Dating Men
The band was incredibly successful in the eighties.
The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
THE most famous Eighties fashion accessory this side of the bubble perm is back. The Sun
One of the weightiest is the unexpected mea culpa that Abby Mann wrote for the defendant Dr. Janning, played by Burt Lancaster, in "Judgment at Nuremberg. A kiss, as time goes by
Yet the Eighties revival that has swept its pestilential way through womenswear for years continues to wreak eye-watering havoc on the way the other side accoutres itself. Top stories from Times Online
Three black kids in sagging black denim huddle around a souped-up eighties Camaro with enormous chrome rims. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
Top fashion finds: anything mod, trench coats, Eighties ruching, vintage Chanel and Adolfo tweedy jackets, thirties movie star silk charmeuse gowns, seventies high-waist jeans and denim skirts a la Chloe.
A Italian traveller called in there in the eighties of last century, reporting a legend of a valuable ikon. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
In the Eighties, idealistic young programmers made the code behind their software publicly available for others to improve. Times, Sunday Times
He moves to France and in his eighties finds himself lacking in objects but filled with the knowledge he has had a charmed life.
She is in her early eighties and wheelchair bound.
The Eighties influence makes itself felt again in party wear, with slashed necklines, puffed sleeves, waists and skirts, halterneck tops and the accessory of accessories: the belt.
Passengers made the journey aboard the vintage buses, including several veteran drivers and clippies in their seventies and eighties.
By the late eighties their number had grown fourfold.
Maybe no bad thing if you remember the unbearable behaviour of London city boys in the mid-Eighties.
Temperatures will soar into the eighties over the weekend say the weather forecasters.
The soundtrack Eighties disco music is best for morale. Times, Sunday Times
A regional footnote - the lumberjack-style Timberland boot was a big hit in the Eighties.
Back in the Eighties, you were either a mod, a long-haired rocker or a football casual and if you were a particularly awkward teenager you were a goth.
Producers want her to front a band in a club for an Eighties flashback scene. The Sun
During the eighteen-eighties, above all through the investigations of the Frenchman Brown-Séquard, attention had been directed to the importance for the vital functions of certain ductless gland-like organs. Physiology or Medicine 1923 - Presentation Speech
He considers the field much more difficult to break into than it was in the late eighties and early nineties - tightened budgets, fewer magazines buying fewer photo essays - and he doesn't sugar-coat that reality for his students.
In her navy blazer and high-necked blouse, she seems a throwback to the early eighties.
A striking feature of the songs is that unlike much contemporary Indigenous song writing, the fettling gangs of Torres Strait Islanders in the sixties, seventies and eighties did not write predominately about home. Eastern Torres Strait Islander Songs
The kind of person who perpetuates this cycle is the kind of person who considers themselves a film buff when their experience is mostly limited to eighties action movies, or a big reader despite the fact that they never read anything but epic fantasy and pulp sci-fi. Bang Bang, Bang Bang
Sementsev was rather good at the tango and foxtrot: the latest dances in his circle in the USSR of the eighties. KARA KUSH
The Eighties were an important decade for sculpture when many contemporary artists turned to three-dimensional work.
The highlight of the dancing was a man in his eighties who tossed his cane away as he gingerly boogied to the cheering crowd. Levi Ben-Shmuel: Finding Joy On The Sea Of Galilee
Andre could pull off the frosted feathered hair, neon colored shirt audacious thing for one reason and one reason only: IT WAS THE EIGHTIES.
He had a peculiar way of prefacing his weightiest sentences with a short word, uttered twice in a guttural manner, clearing up his throat, or his "gullick," as he would term it, just before uttering them. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
In the late eighties, he introduced quality control standards to a sceptical industry.
From the early eighties, we started thinking about organizing on a European level.
With that he turned up the radio to an old eighties rock song, and we started our off-key duet in very loud voices.
Back in the eighties when the money was flowing, the place stank of evil and unacceptable moral standards, pretty much like today, except that the economy is in the toilet.
One place I've been and don't want to go back to: long permed hair and feathered bangs, which is the look I'm sporting in the passport that I got at age 17 the eighties, apparently, came late to the west coast, because this was in 1992. Ferule & Fescue
The band was incredibly successful in the eighties.
My grandmother is in her eighties, regularly touches up her roots, and still looks very glamorous.
My immediate left-hand tablemate is ten years older than me, and looks like he had a lot of late nights in the eighties.
THE Eighties weren't just about synth pop. The Sun
It was back in the Eighties that merchandising profits overtook ticket sales. Times, Sunday Times
Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life.
This album is not a nostalgic journey into late eighties dance music.
During the mid-eighties, the Chinses Avantgarde Literrature is a narrative revolution that grew in"the west wind".
What was originally a graphic novel, updating an Orwellian tale of revolt against an authoritarian government to the Eighties, has become a movie that updates the same themes to the present day.
Much of this is to do with the transition from conflictual policing to consensual policing over the past two decades and the absence of any real threat or challenge since the smashing of working class opposition at the end of the Eighties. Alan Miller: UK Riots
The two met in the late Eighties while studying medieval history at Manchester University; a fact that led to many chortles about geeks inheriting the dance floor.
The brothers opened a chain of electrical shops in the eighties.
During the eighties he found himself seconded to the new ambulance control room, in Preston.
In the Eighties it was social democracy. Times, Sunday Times
Right into his eighties he was producing painting after painting, entire series of etchings.
I remember a report from France, in the eighties, where near the launch of St. Hilaire du Touvet (today a site overpopulated by paragliders) a hang glider got hit by a sailplane passing under him.
Professor Geoffrey R Stone, editor of the Supreme Court Review and one of the weightiest voices in this collection, adds now widely quoted pragmatism to such basic doubts. The Offensive Internet edited by Saul Levmore and Martha C Nussbaum – review
By the Eighties the `oligarchy", through intermarriage over the years, had grown to about two hundred families in all. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
It was in the eighties that underworld characters in the movies began to look more realistic.
They take personal fitness very seriously here, with even the old dears in their eighties and nineties taking part.
All three books reveal Henderson, by then in his seventies and eighties, as he chose to be revealed.
For someone approaching his eighties he is so full of life - a real inspiration.
In the early Eighties, German scientists discovered that black truffles contained a steroid called androsterone, a sexual hormone found in the salivary glands Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
His music is very much of its time, and I should say it has, in its extra-musical concerns of orientalia, hothouse sex, and Celtic twilight, links to the literary Decadents of the Victorian Eighties and Nineties.
At this point, back in the early half of the Eighties, cocaine was a recreational drug.
In the Eighties, tax breaks were offered against money invested in tree plantations.
Well into his eighties he could recite guest lists from parties he had been to long ago. Times, Sunday Times
Referencing the genres of electroclash, post-punk and garage rock, critics compare this movement's cultural significance to early-eighties post-punk. Globe and Mail
In a poem called "A Short Lexicon of Torture in the Eighties," for example, Hirsch strings together the euphemistic names for methods of torture, fashioning a kind of antic dance step, meant to expose the dark side of Reagan-era prosperity. NYT > Home Page
They had a brief romance in the eighties.
And before him --- ooh, we're talking mid-eighties --- was Nick, an actor, who did touring rep. RESCUING ROSE
There had been a change in the nature of unemployment since the early eighties.
It has an ageless quality, perhaps because it was written by an old man in a decade (the eighties) in which poetic reflections on the First World War were not a common theme for novels.
Fortunately, in the eighties we have begun to recognise that modern communication skills go far beyond the concept of advertising.
The president said he had prayed for God's intervention on any number or occasions – though not always on the weightiest issues of the day. Obama Discusses Faith At National Prayer Breakfast
She is in her eighties, and suffering from sickness and diarrhoea.
These co-operative businesses boosted the local economy in the eighties and even led to the improvement of infrastructure in the area.
The popular playground pastime of the Eighties is making a comeback - this time with a difference. Times, Sunday Times
Yet it strikes me that the real story of blacks in the eighties is not about a quest for political access.
It's certainly true that students retain a strange willingness to welcome back the moth-eaten cultural icons of the Eighties.
Both in college and again in the eighties, I followed macrobiotic diets.
At the end of the Eighties, everything in my life came unstuck; the critics panned my Joan of Arc musical and my long-term relationship fell horribly apart.
Though they were existent in the seventies and eighties, an estimated 5000 cults in the United States hunger for our youth, worship, and money.
After his retirement in the early Eighties, he became a familiar voice worldwide as a commentator. Times, Sunday Times
Fashion has turned the clock back to the Eighties, bringing gold, sequins and bold patterns back into the limelight.
The first is Jim Glennon, who won half a dozen caps for Ireland in the eighties.
But by the early eighties, the city was both a physical and cultural wasteland due to major label buyouts of the artists as well as the crippling drug habits of some of the others. LAMBGOAT.com News Headlines
Jimmy, who was in his eighties, was a well known and popular character in the area over the years.
How strange it must have been to live here in the late eighties.
As a piece of eighties nostalgia it does the job but for what you get you'd find better value in a compilation CD and some vintage sportswear, for there's little else here.
The Eighties were the decade of innovation and novelty in frozen and processed foods.
Did you know the word woot originated from the early eighties and was used by hackers when they gained root access to a system?
From late eighties onwards, with the Dalit movement came against the hegemony of the upper caste and argued in favour of casteless society. Untouchable Spring .... అంటరాని వసంతం
It underwent a change of ownership and name in the Eighties when it became the Grey Desire, then a couple of years ago it changed hands again and reverted to its former name.
After all, the last time there was a trend like this — I’ll cite the surge in psychosexual killer-based horror that happened in the Eighties — the rest of “traditional” speculative fiction suffered mightily. Who’s Afraid of Urban Fantasy? «
In the late eighties he underwent a religious conversion.
But somehow all their best stuff seems to be from the mid eighties.
Workers under 50 years of age can expect to live well into their eighties.
The last increase in interest in diesel fleet cars was in the boom years of the mid-to-late Eighties.
Jim was the `sixties version, Antony the later ` seventies or `eighties version. POLITICAL SUICIDE
Since the cheaper loaves of bread were brands unfamiliar to me, I read the ingredient listings - and was sad but not surprised to see high fructose corn syrup in every loaf, in one loaf making up the third weightiest ingredient. Taking the “hunger challenge”
I first read this when I was a teenager living in Trinidad in the early eighties, and I remember it moving me then.
The aging girls were ditched in the eighties, but the legacy of bad choreography continues, with anonymous bimbos who stand on raised podiums, shaking their bits to the hits.
Politically the sixties generation came to maturity in the eighties.
Back in the Eighties, you were either a mod, a long-haired rocker or a football casual and if you were a particularly awkward teenager you were a goth.
The brothers opened a chain of electrical shops in the eighties.
Up until the early to mid eighties, Chile was famous or infamous for cheap Spanish style reds and whites.
And there was a certain dingy office in a lane-like street that was also a centre in the early eighties. Canadian Cities of Romance
In "The Jumping-off Place," about San Diego as the nation's suicide capital, epitome of native anguish and exhaustion, he concludes with a black parody of the all-American Whitmaniacal catalogue: they stuff up the cracks of their doors and quietly turn on the gas; they go into their back sheds or back kitchens and eat ant-paste or swallow Lysol; they drive their cars into dark alleys, get into the back seat and shoot themselves; they hang themselves in hotel bedrooms, take overdoses of sulphonal or barbital; they slip off to the municipal golf-links and there stab themselves with carving-knives; or they throw themselves into the bay, blue and placid, where gray battleships and cruisers guard the limits of their broad-belting nation-already reaching out in the eighties for the sugar plantations of Honolulu. Claremont.org
He was the hip blond rebel who elbowed his way into such classic Eighties teen movies as 'Pretty in Pink'; now James Spader is finding satisfaction in decidedly more grown-up roles.
Anyone that remembers the eighties is encouraged to come along and relive the good old times.
Over the Eighties and Nineties, everyone else slimmed down the back offices, delayered, computerised, out sourced and reduced headcount.
On account of some trivial misunderstanding with the authorities, this man was compelled in the early eighties to take to the woods, where he lived a wild life _ (alla campagna; alla macchia) _ for some three years. Old Calabria
Some friends, come to think of it, are in their seventies and eighties.
However, taste, smell and touch can remain fairly constant well into our seventies and eighties, provided that we don't neglect them.
In the late Seventies and Eighties the production of westerns declined to the point that several critics affirmed the death of the genre.
If the Eighties were about hedonism and excess, the new century has a more subdued mood. Times, Sunday Times
I am in my early seventies and my husband is in his late eighties.
Carnival was a big thing in the seventies and early eighties - as it is these days, except in a different way.
Further evidence of the strange phenomenon of US bands rediscovering Eighties indie. The Sun
He was in his late eighties and had become the country's most respected elder statesman.
The Eighties were about unashamed self realisation.
Parsifal - at the end of the weightiest, most yearning Vorspiel one can imagine, as the woodwind sing out into the Bayreuth gloom and the strings disappear into the stratosphere we are suddenly plunged into inky digital silence before the first scene begins. Where is there an end of it?
His enthusiasm for concertgoing continued undiminished into his early eighties. Times, Sunday Times
The housing market was at its height in the eighties.
Voice over Swindon is one of the eighties boom towns which has had to shoulder the burden of recession.
For this reason the alicyclic series has, since the middle of the eighties, assumed such size and importance as to make it the equal of the other three main series within organic chemistry. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1910 - Presentation Speech
All was flashes of hot pink and turquoise blue, the strobe of the late eighties.
Coming into the decade of the eighties, others who fell into the bin of those opposing the system, including "those who are not willing to sacrifice for a bright future," and "the scum," this linguistic discovery that tried to define a subproduct of the crucible that forged not only the socialist society but also the new man, who would have the duty to build, and one day to enjoy, the Utopia. Yoani Sanchez: The Threat of a Label: "Dissident"
To see an apprentice with these qualities and characteristics was not a common sight in the eighties.
But that was thirty-four years ago, and the marquess had been in his eighties at the time. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
In the early Eighties, a romance better remembered than relived, the vocoder was the main machine of electro hip-hop, the black voice removed from itself, displaced by NPR Topics: News
In the Eighties he served a long apprenticeship as player-manager in non-league football, first with Chelmsford City and thereafter Dartford.
It was back in the Eighties that merchandising profits overtook ticket sales. Times, Sunday Times
During the eighties the government had asked the railways to slicken up their act, to get modern, get groovy, get nasty - and the old man and his team had done it. too APPLYING PRESSURE They were aware that the lucrative business traveller was ignoring the railways. Gridlock
Program delivery during the eighties was almost exclusively tied to the incorporated body, the legal entity established to receive and account for public funds.
Also of note: Rae, Boone, and Stefansson all lived into their eighties, despite eating mostly meat and fat for years. THE NEW ATKINS FOR A NEW YOU
In some small cities, like Danville, Virginia, you could bar-hop nip joints as recently as the eighties. CHASING the WHITE DOG
Sementsev was rather good at the tango and foxtrot: the latest dances in his circle in the USSR of the eighties. KARA KUSH
Now they are mostly in their seventies or eighties, and their stories need telling before they pass on.
I can remember my sister using it in the late forties, and through such oral usage it must have been kept alive until a greater use of demotic language in the press and elsewhere in the eighties brought it to wider public notice.
This the neighborhood bindery I imagined back in the eighties, when I suddenly realized what computers could do to free and distribute information.
As many as 30 to 40 percent of people in their eighties have this dreaded disease. Christianity Today
In the Eighties, they pushed through the first, 600ft flooded section or 'sump' to find new air space beneath a thundering waterfall. Home | Mail Online
It was the mid eighties, and how could I possibly fail to have a haircut called after Her Royal Loveliness?
This is not the kind of low-fat diet that was popular in the Eighties. Times, Sunday Times
A regional footnote - the lumberjack-style Timberland boot was a big hit in the Eighties.
The eighties were a period of great change in publishing.
He moved to the USA to teach in the Eighties, but hip hop and house passed him by, as he immersed himself in world music.
The temperature is expected to remain in the low eighties.
They watched an old American soap opera, `Dallas", dating back to the eighties of the previous century. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Ya'alon does have clout, by virtue of his position on the "septet," Netanyahu's supreme decision making forum where the country's weightiest policy issues are decided. Israelated - English Israel blogs

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