Example sentences for: hine

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

  • Hine argues, quite persuasively, that the indulgent mass "teen-age" culture is largely the result of corralling most of society's 14-to-18-year-olds into American high schools.

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

  • 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."

  • By 1940, Hine writes, "an overwhelming majority of young people were enrolled, and perhaps more important, there was a new expectation that nearly everyone would go, and even graduate."

  • 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.


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