How to Use eighty in a Sentence

eighty

noun
  • She is in her mid-eighties.
  • The temperature rose to the high eighties.
  • 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
  • Bryan grew up in Hell’s Kitchen in the eighties.
    — Blair Braverman, Outside, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Fethullah Gülen was in his eighties and had long been in ill health.
    — CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Byrne has been biking around the city since the early eighties.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Hall had worked in the sheriff’s office since the eighties.
    — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Some of my outfits are from the eighties, but a lot of them are also from right now.
    — Nigel Smith, People.com, 23 June 2025
  • This is a person in their eighties who was not demented.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • This was Midland, Texas, in the eighties and nineties.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • In the eighties, prenups were usually in the news for getting tossed out.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Then, as the overheated art market of the eighties cooled off, he was dropped.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The gender gap in wages, which had stagnated in the eighties, was on its way up again.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Brand, now in his eighties, is an ardent Burner.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • One of the women was in her seventies and the other in her eighties.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 30 June 2025
  • By the late eighties, even the best hunters could barely make half of what people earned working in the store.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • My love had lived in the French capital as a student in the mid-eighties.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • This was the seventies and the eighties and underground was a thing.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • Now, the youngest boomers are in their early sixties and the oldest are nearing their eighties.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Even at five thousand feet, the temperature was in the eighties.
    — Daniel A. Gross, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
  • When the song began, Donald—in his eighties, and then in his nineties—always stood and danced.
    — Anna Wintour, Vogue, 27 May 2026
  • 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
  • Farm debt is back near its peak in the eighties—higher, by some measures—and rural suicide rates have climbed sharply.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • An eccentric burnout, someone for whom the eighties had been dazzling but dimming at the same time.
    — Douglas Stuart, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Animated superhero shows were all the rage in the mid-to-late eighties.
    — Marilyn La Jeunesse, Parents, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Jim and Stephen in the eighties did not quite take this sort-of observer’s viewpoint from within.
    — Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2025
  • Once, in the eighties, Nelson recorded four albums in a single day.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025

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