Example sentences for: sixties

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

  • 1. A "Yale classmate" and "family friend" who "partied with the future Texas governor and presidential candidate in the late sixties and early seventies in Houston."

  • 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.

  • Bell's fleeting discussion of the "sixties" cultural events--so in the foreground of American life circa 1973--is somewhat startling with hindsight.

  • The sixties also produced a distinctive brand of rock music, with bands such as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, and the legendary voice of Janis Joplin.

  • Opera singers who take care of their voices can perform only into their sixties.


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