Example sentences for: eighties

How can you use “eighties” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Imad Mugniyeh, one of the founder members of Lebanon's radical Hizbollah Muslim militia, and as notorious in the international terrorist world in the eighties as Osama bin Laden is today, has been identified as responsible for plotting last week's terrorist attack on the Russian embassy in Beirut," the paper said.

  • Eighties Brat Packer Ally Sheedy revives her career playing a cult lesbian photographer.

  • What Paul David, Brian Arthur, and a growing number of other economists began to realize in the late seventies and early eighties was that stories like that of the typewriter keyboard are, in fact, pervasive in the economy."

  • Even today's twenty-somethings, still hot on the club scene with their flamboyant teen slang from the late eighties, find it hard to keep up with the latest waves.

  • Across Lepelstraat from the church is the Frans Hals Museum, a suitable testimony to the town’s most famous son, who was still happily painting in his eighties.


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