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US
/ˈsɪkstiz/
]
[ UK /sˈɪkstɪz/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪkstɪz/ ]
NOUN
- the decade from 1960 to 1969
- the time of life between 60 and 70
How To Use sixties In A Sentence
- She was in her sixties and wore her thinning gray hair pulled back in a loose bun with all but a few strands secured by bobby pins.
- If Estelle is in her eighties but looks a good deal younger, then why wouldn’t “Susan” just assume she’s in her sixties or seventies? CHECKOUT • by Sonia Suedfeld
- His favourites are biographies of sixties and seventies musicians, and pop and rock stars.
- In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
- The Sixties versus the Eighties, in fact. The question is - does it work?
- Having ogled females in feathers, let's move on to Sisters In Leather, a black-and-white Sixties nudie which, despite its title, is not a ‘roughie’.
- The related axiomatic study of epistemic notions has benefited from application of techniques used for proving incompleteness and indefinability results since the early sixties. Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic
- It is an act of worship to the sixties and seventies - to flares and body shirts and all that glitters.
- Women who'd long been pensioned off the catwalk are emerging reborn in their fifties and sixties, as coolly desirable, quietly, but confidently shimmering with big-name campaigns.
- He was also involved in rowing for many years and had few equals in that sport especially when he rowed in the Bluebird in the late sixties and early seventies.