Example sentences for: sixties

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

  • In the American West leaves out the most striking fact about the West--its landscapes; similarly, the Vietnam pictures in The Sixties --taken during Avedon's 1971 trip to Saigon--contain no lush jungles or crowded urban streets, no Hueys or hamlets or rice paddies.

  • By the time he entered his sixties, in 1895, Skeat gave the impression that he was beginning to take these matters a little less seriously:

  • Young people work in a corporate world by day but play in a "moral and cultural universe shaped by the Sixties."

  • Scars are not all that's exposed: Flipping through The Sixties you'll catch glimpses of Warhol superstar Viva's pregnant belly and fashion model Veruschka's breasts, as well as (among others) dancer Rudolf Nureyev's penis (impressive, flaccid) and satirist Paul Krassner's (less so, half-erect).

  • Writing last Sunday in the New York Times Magazine , New York University politics professor Mark Lilla claims to have discovered why the Sixties still incite debate in America (under the guise of the culture wars) whereas such matters have long since been resolved in Europe: Americans naively make a religion out of democracy.


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