Example sentences for: sixties

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

  • 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:

  • In the late Sixties you get the concept album, which is what the Smashing Pumpkin's "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" [a two-CD set] is.

  • An essay claims the left and the right now function solely in reaction to "the Reagan revolution" and "the Sixties," respectively.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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