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forties

[ UK /fˈɔːtɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹtiz/ ]
NOUN
  1. the decade from 1940 to 1949
  2. the time of life between 40 and 50

How To Use forties In A Sentence

  • Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and A Desperate Character and Other Stories
  • He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
  • They are now in their forties and the mainstay of the economy. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was in his early forties, tall and blond with bright blue eyes.
  • Following him was a petite woman who also was in her mid forties but didn't look a day over thirty five.
  • I understand the feelings of loss among those who have fond memories of the Odeon in its heyday of the Thirties and Forties.
  • But it's in their forties or fifties that many people also experience a unique moment of joyous relief. Times, Sunday Times
  • Steel cans were introduced sometime during the forties.
  • There are typical MacDonald observations and descriptions, like this one: "Three lean women in bathing suits sat at one tabel, complete with beach bags, tall drinks, and that special porcelainized facial expression of middle forties trying, with monied success, to look like middle thirties. Archive 2009-04-05
  • But he discovered that the connecting white matter actually grew until his subjects reached their late forties.
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