Example sentences for: hippie

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

  • Your description of Bell's cultural conservatism makes me wonder whether his decision to ignore the cultural effects of post-industrial society had to do with his personal distaste for the "counterculture" hippie freaknik thing I've seen in old newsreels.

  • Then came its re-emergence in Beat and hippie patois, and its ascension into totemic status, as the primary pop-cultural word that future generations would associate with the youth culture of the 1960s.

  • Most important, circa 1970s, would be Alvin Toffler ( The Third Wave ) and Stewart Brand (who wrote a crucial article for Rolling Stone in 1970 about how the real legacy of the hippie cultural revolution was the computer hacker).

  • The acting is competent, sometimes even affecting, particularly 17-year-old Julia Stiles as an aimless, pregnant hippie.

  • He's the multimillionaire founder of a biotech company, and the mother-daughter pair in pursuit of him are hippie drifters, who whimper for their chance at legitimacy and reliable love where Adele and Ann howled and scratched.


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