Example sentences for: hippies

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

  • He was hipper than the hippies who embraced him, and the charm is that he got there first.

  • Even so, the fact remains that this unprecedentedly strong form of global arms control--the sort of thing peacenik hippies could only dream about a decade ago--now commands mainstream support: all Senate Democrats, around half of all Senate Republicans, Presidents Clinton, Carter, Ford, and Bush (and, for all we know, Reagan).

  • Set in 1969, A Walk on the Moon devises a deliciously resonant dual setting: a Catskills summer community to which middle-class Jews from the city migrate to swim and eat and play mah-jongg, and the gathering hippies at nearby Woodstock.

  • Ten years on, the term “hippies” was coined for the flower children who gathered around the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

  • Bell's world, circa 1973, was one where Marxism seemed important, the U.S.S.R. appeared powerful, and "group" politics was poised to tear American democracy apart with tribalism (women's rights, black power, hippies, labor, etc.).


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