How to Use ninety in a Sentence

ninety

noun

• During the nineties, he was going to college and working part-time.
• Slowdive produced some of the most of the nineties, and the band has now for this decade.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
• In the nineties, the rules for how to be cool were pretty simple.
  — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2018
• First, a man in his nineties who had made his way to the Homer High School in the middle of the night.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2018
• That happened with a lot of black TV making in the nineties.
  — Jonny Auping, Longreads, 25 June 2019
• A lot of fans in the nineties are nostalgic for the blaring.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 July 2024
• So, well, from my twenties to my nineties is about 70 years.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2024
• The soundtrack to our freedom was the country music of the nineties.
  — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
• The temperature dropped, but not by much, maybe high nineties in the run-up to dawn.
  — Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
• That was certainly true for me, in college in the nineties.
  — Maris Kreizman, The New Republic, 14 June 2019
• If memory serves, the late-nineties price was $8 per foot.
  — Ben Hewitt, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
• If memory serves, the late-nineties price was $8 per foot.
  — Ben Hewitt, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
• And then in the nineties there was this multiracial movement.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
• Our fans who were with us in the nineties now have children and grandchildren.
  — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
• The eighties and nineties were quite cynical in many ways.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• The beginning of the worst chapter of Rousey's childhood came in the early nineties.
  — Mary Pilon, Esquire, 10 Nov. 2015
• RuPaul herself paved her road to stardom in the city's iconic clubs of the nineties.
  — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
• Mary, who is in her nineties and lives alone, asked that her full name not be used for safety reasons.
  — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
• Fans of The Nanny rejoice: The classic nineties sitcom just might be coming back to the small screen.
  — Emily Wang, Glamour, 19 June 2018
• My mom was 96, my dad was 88, my dad's sisters all went way into their nineties.
  — SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• In the nineties, the billionaire financier Ronald Perelman became a friend and client of Gagosian’s.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• Those shops were demolished in the nineties to make way for a multiplex and a Barnes & Noble.
  — Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• But The Girl—overall very nineties low-key, clubby music.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2014
• The missile pulled lead, then did a ninety degree reversal and hit the aircraft in the tail.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2019
• Andy, in the nineties when, when Microsoft came out with a new Windows version, right?
  — Andy Mills, Quartz, 20 June 2024
• Barb Wire, the Pam Anderson vehicle from the mid nineties.
  — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
• Okay, so this is certainly out there, even by nineties' kit standards.
  — SI.com, 28 June 2019
• Her fresh flavors and worldly approach were part of Cranks’ attempt to update its brown-ricey brand for the nineties.
  — Julia Tausch, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2018
• Hurst, as a Pittsburgh Pirate minor-league pitcher throwing in the mid-nineties, got the yips and had to quit baseball.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• In the nineties and two-thousands, spam made e-mail nigh-unusable; one 2009 report from Microsoft found that ninety-seven per cent of e-mails were unwanted.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024