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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.
This old exclamation, probably dating centuries back, had a sudden vogue in the late eighties and early nineties when the sports fraternity latched on to it and spread it everywhere through radio and television.
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."
Indeed, I feel that the competition process has been successful in ways that I would not have ever envisioned when I was hanging out in legal services programs in Iowa and New Jersey in the seventies, eighties and nineties.
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.