How to Use eighty in a Sentence

eighty

noun

• She is in her mid-eighties.
• The temperature rose to the high eighties.
• 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
• Adoptions had risen to a peak in the seventies and eighties.
  — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• The gender gap in wages, which had stagnated in the eighties, was on its way up again.
  — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
• Then, as the overheated art market of the eighties cooled off, he was dropped.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Now, the youngest boomers are in their early sixties and the oldest are nearing their eighties.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Guion Bluford, the first African-American in space, is in his eighties.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
• The silhouettes reimagine the styles of the fifties through eighties with modern updates.
  — Nandi Howard, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019
• During the eighties, I got married to a woman named Aída and had a son and daughter.
  — Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 17 May 2017
• Ben’s mother raised him and two daughters in the Wells during the seventies and eighties.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
• Several ruggedly handsome men played the part in the seventies and eighties in the ads.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, this debate burst into the courts.
  — Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• George H.W. Bush was in his mid-eighties by 2010, when an earthquake devastated Haiti.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 15 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So the graffiti movement of the early eighties got off-track, no pun intended, with crack cocaine.
  — Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the eighties, the Labour Party had a policy of unilateral disarmament.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024