Example sentences for: hippies

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

  • 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.

  • Tony Thorne's Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (1990) claims that it has been adopted by non-native hippies and travellers living in the West Country to refer to anyone who is not approved of.

  • 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."

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

  • Amsterdam became a mecca for counter-culture groups such as hippies, who were drawn by the well-known open-mindedness of the people.


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