Example sentences for: hine

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

  • Judging from the American Heritage excerpt, Hine takes the self-serving baby-boomer view that teen-age culture started to decline, oh, right around the time he ceased participating in it.

  • Although public high schools had been around since 1821 (and prep schools had been around before then), secondary education, Hine writes, had been "very slow to win acceptance among working-class families that counted on their children's incomes for survival."

  • The magazine is American Heritage , and the article, "The Rise and Decline of the Teenager," is an excerpt from a new book by Thomas Hine called The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager .

  • "Young men of seventeen, sixteen, and younger had been soldiers in all of America's previous wars," Hine writes.

  • Hine doesn't get into this, but boomer math contradicts the boomer mythology that that it was the baby boom that first absorbed rock 'n' roll into the mass culture.


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