How to Use sixty in a Sentence
sixty
noun- He retired when he was in his sixties.
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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
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That's such a holdover from the seventies or even the fifties and sixties.
—Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2014
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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
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Get a sixties vibe and get mellow at Caffe Lena (caffelena.org).
—Korky Vann, courant.com, 18 July 2017
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The turmoil in those sixties was also part of his make-up.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2011
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Back in the sixties, there was a threat to your life on a whole different level.
—Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
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Now in her sixties, Hoover can pinpoint a teenage trip to Paris as a turning point.
—Margaret Sutherlin, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018
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Take the case of Phyllis and Mark, a married couple in their mid sixties.
—Emily Esfahani Smith, National Review, 25 July 2019
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Maahi*, who appears to be in her sixties, lives in a village close to where Samta lives.
—Seema Yasmin, SELF, 17 Aug. 2018
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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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The months between December and February are the coolest, with highs of around the high sixties.
—Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Oct. 2023
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For starters, Freud wrote a number of his most important books in his fifties and sixties.
—Steven Kotler, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
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The couple’s activism goes back to the fifties and sixties, during the Civil Rights Movement.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
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The first table seats a married couple in their sixties.
—Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2020
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The defendants, who pleaded guilty to these crimes, ranged in age from their twenties to sixties.
—Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
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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
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Not just throughout his fifties and sixties, but beyond.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 29 June 2019
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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
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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
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Hyman, in his sixties, aims to eat 30 grams of protein at every meal to build muscle.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 13 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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There was something about the camaraderie and the community in the late sixties.
—Ryan H. Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2018
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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
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Pierce told the newspaper the kayakers were German tourists – a married couple and a man, all in their sixties.
—CBS News, 31 July 2019
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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
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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
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The people around him are all in their late sixties, seventies or eighties.
—Laignee Barron / Taipei, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
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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
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