How to Use sixty in a Sentence

sixty

noun

• He retired when he was in his sixties.
• Highs will top out in the low sixties with cloudy skies throughout the day and overnight lows in the low 50s.
  — Mike Rose, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2020
• That's such a holdover from the seventies or even the fifties and sixties.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2014
• Just like the kids of the sixties couldn’t believe their grandmothers didn’t have the right to vote.
  — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
• Get a sixties vibe and get mellow at Caffe Lena (caffelena.org).
  — Korky Vann, courant.com, 18 July 2017
• The turmoil in those sixties was also part of his make-up.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2011
• Back in the sixties, there was a threat to your life on a whole different level.
  — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Now in her sixties, Hoover can pinpoint a teenage trip to Paris as a turning point.
  — Margaret Sutherlin, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018
• Take the case of Phyllis and Mark, a married couple in their mid sixties.
  — Emily Esfahani Smith, National Review, 25 July 2019
• Maahi*, who appears to be in her sixties, lives in a village close to where Samta lives.
  — Seema Yasmin, SELF, 17 Aug. 2018
• Now, the youngest boomers are in their early sixties and the oldest are nearing their eighties.
  — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The months between December and February are the coolest, with highs of around the high sixties.
  — Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2023
• For starters, Freud wrote a number of his most important books in his fifties and sixties.
  — Steven Kotler, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
• The couple’s activism goes back to the fifties and sixties, during the Civil Rights Movement.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
• The first table seats a married couple in their sixties.
  — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2020
• The defendants, who pleaded guilty to these crimes, ranged in age from their twenties to sixties.
  — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
• Being in his late sixties, even a sentence of 13 years can amount to a life sentence for Manfort.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Not just throughout his fifties and sixties, but beyond.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 29 June 2019
• In town for the shows, the Fetish singer hit a party in Manhattan last night with a fresh spin on the one decade that no starlet can resist: The sixties.
  — Vogue, 9 Sep. 2017
• Kids of the sixties had their Easy-Bake Ovens and nineties babies wouldn't go anywhere without those Tamagotchis.
  — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2018
• Hyman, in his sixties, aims to eat 30 grams of protein at every meal to build muscle.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 13 Apr. 2023
• The sports car is styled after the iconic Shelby Daytona Coupes of the mid-sixties, with a massive rear-window.
  — Joseph Geha, The Mercury News, 28 July 2019
• Mae is a woman in her sixties who views her, now far from glamorous, life with a dry, offbeat sense of humor.
  — Rachel Connolly, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023
• There was something about the camaraderie and the community in the late sixties.
  — Ryan H. Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The event is open to anyone 14 and up, but last time even people into their sixties got the chance to experience a prom.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2015
• Pierce told the newspaper the kayakers were German tourists – a married couple and a man, all in their sixties.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2019
• For now, the company only has two members of the Puig family, both of whom are in their sixties.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 2 May 2024
• More than half of Americans are also women – and of those, half are in their thirties to sixties.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• The people around him are all in their late sixties, seventies or eighties.
  — Laignee Barron / Taipei, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
• Ronald Reagan asked the right questions in 1984, when these men were in their sixties, and an American president traveled to the cliffs above Omaha Beach to pay them honor.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024