Example sentences for: hippies

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

  • After inveighing against the raping and pillaging at Woodstock '99 (a video segment of concert-goers is captioned "250,000 Attendees & Hopped-Up Psychos"), John McLaughlin finds himself waxing nostalgic for the hippies of yesteryear: "At the first Woodstock there was [also] heavy rain, there were [also] people standing around [under a hot sun], there were long lines for food, but they were respectable."

  • Blue Mountain has next to no revenue (again, it was started by former hippies ), but lots of visitors.

  • The hippies who populate latte towns have finally embraced capitalism, and they are using private enterprise to build livable, prosperous cities.

  • The term was in use long before hippies were a gleam in anyone's eye; it is probably an extension from the theatrical term for the villain of the piece, later transferred to mean `serious, important.

  • Another aspect of our future that he mentions, but fails to really investigate, is his criticism of "groups" ("blacks," hippies, women, etc.) and his sense that a cultural fissure is appearing between young and old.


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