How to Use eighty in a Sentence
eighty
noun- She is in her mid-eighties.
- The temperature rose to the high eighties.
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In her eighties then and still getting used to the idea of her late-life revival, Page sat near the back of the room.
—Chris Jones, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
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Adoptions had risen to a peak in the seventies and eighties.
—Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
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The gender gap in wages, which had stagnated in the eighties, was on its way up again.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
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Then, as the overheated art market of the eighties cooled off, he was dropped.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
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And yet the books just keep on coming—no small feat for a writer in her early eighties.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2023
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Now, the youngest boomers are in their early sixties and the oldest are nearing their eighties.
—Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
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Guion Bluford, the first African-American in space, is in his eighties.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
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The silhouettes reimagine the styles of the fifties through eighties with modern updates.
—Nandi Howard, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019
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During the eighties, I got married to a woman named Aída and had a son and daughter.
—Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 17 May 2017
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Ben’s mother raised him and two daughters in the Wells during the seventies and eighties.
—Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
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Several ruggedly handsome men played the part in the seventies and eighties in the ads.
—Peter King, SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
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So Zecha, now in his eighties, corralled his friends from all across the world to invest in villas and that became Amanpuri, the first Aman.
—Hannah Seligson, Town & Country, 12 May 2016
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Now and then, in the seventies and eighties, one of the big museums would show an African American artist.
—Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
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The film also has a distinct eighties vibe that harkens back to the classic rom-com days of Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles.
—Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 28 Aug. 2018
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In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, this debate burst into the courts.
—Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
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This continued into the eighties and nineties as fans wore ripped jeans, band t-shirts, and flannels to punk concerts.
—Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
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By the dawn of the nineties, the culture had only doubled down on the worship of wealth, beauty, and glamour that dominated the eighties.
—Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
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As her work began to attract notice in the seventies and eighties, Saar was able to travel more.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
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Tucked away in his archive were more than two thousand rolls of film from the nineteen-seventies and eighties, which had for some reason slipped through the cracks.
—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019
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And with good reason: the Tyrrhenian Sea is sparkling, blue, and beckoning, the temperatures in the high eighties, and the citrus groves plump with lemons.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 May 2024
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George H.W. Bush was in his mid-eighties by 2010, when an earthquake devastated Haiti.
—Avi Selk, Washington Post, 15 July 2017
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Willetts is a tall, genial man, who worked for Margaret Thatcher’s policy unit in the eighties.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
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One of Craig's favorite stories involved an older couple in their eighties who met in a nursing home.
—Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
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There hasn’t been a program with the same cultural impact since John Thompson’s Georgetown basketball teams in the eighties and nineties.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
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Many of the renegade directors self-destructed in a blaze of coke and ego, or joined the counter-revolution of the blockbuster eighties.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
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Now in her eighties, legendary children’s author Judy Blume only recently became keen to the idea of adapting her books for the screen.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 2 May 2023
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So the graffiti movement of the early eighties got off-track, no pun intended, with crack cocaine.
—Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
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In the eighties, the Labour Party had a policy of unilateral disarmament.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024
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