How to Use eighty in a Sentence
eighty
noun- She is in her mid-eighties.
- The temperature rose to the high eighties.
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Yet, amid the greed-is-good eighties, the neat and tidy life took a while to take off.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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Fethullah Gülen was in his eighties and had long been in ill health.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
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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
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Adoptions had risen to a peak in the seventies and eighties.
—Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
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The gender gap in wages, which had stagnated in the eighties, was on its way up again.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
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Then, as the overheated art market of the eighties cooled off, he was dropped.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
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This was the seventies and the eighties and underground was a thing.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 July 2024
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Lewis, who even in his late eighties never shook the habit of working from the office, had asked me to grab him lunch.
—Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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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
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Sardelli is still alive today and is in his late eighties.
—Carita Rizzo, People.com, 17 May 2025
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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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His delights range from the eighties band DeBarge to the purple flowers that bloom in spring.
—The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2025
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My home in the eighties was in a block of former council flats managed by a housing co-op.
—Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Guion Bluford, the first African-American in space, is in his eighties.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Dec. 2023
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The silhouettes reimagine the styles of the fifties through eighties with modern updates.
—Nandi Howard, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019
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During the eighties, I got married to a woman named Aída and had a son and daughter.
—Gabriel Thompson, Longreads, 17 May 2017
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Ben’s mother raised him and two daughters in the Wells during the seventies and eighties.
—Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 19 May 2018
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Several ruggedly handsome men played the part in the seventies and eighties in the ads.
—Peter King, SI.com, 15 Apr. 2018
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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
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Animated superhero shows were all the rage in the mid-to-late eighties.
—Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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The eighties was a decade of social change and political upheaval in Great Britain.
—Claire Lynch june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025
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In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, this debate burst into the courts.
—Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
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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
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Most of these icons from the Sixties and Seventies are in their late seventies or eighties.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2025
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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
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The epilogue, set at a Venice Biennale in the eighties, then switches to a touristy video format that drives home a point about the kitschy co-optation of art.
—Namwali Serpell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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