Example sentences for: hippies

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

  • Meanwhile, Joe lurches from one unnerving mission to the next: a trip to Oxford to meet Logan's furious widow; a Kafkaesque visit to the local police station; a sinister expedition to buy a gun from some aging hippies.

  • To make matters even worse, in the '70s when the hippies were driven out of California, many of them migrated to the Northwest, their VW vans stuffed with copies of Lord of the Rings and Small Is Beautiful . The hippies believed that the only good capitalist was someone selling loose joints at the bus station.

  • 1968: Hippies, Beatniks Sign Historic Personal Hygiene Ban

  • 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.

  • And it was the belief that we ourselves--the teenage revolutionaries, freaks, hippies and students--stood at the heart of a new society."


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