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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:

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.
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.
"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.
the Child Pornography Prevention Act are our home-grown fairy tales, ghostly adumbrations of the hysteria that swept over us in the eighties.
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.