eighties
IPA: ˈeɪtiz
noun
- The decade of the 1880s, 1980s, etc.
- The decade of one's life from age 80 through age 89.
- (temperature, rates, plural only) The range between 80 and 89.
adjective
- From or evoking the 81st through 90th years of a century (chiefly the 1980s).
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Examples of "eighties" in Sentences
- The people aged in their eighties.
- She later quit the industry in the eighties.
- The eighties saw increased activism by the Board.
- Her first fiance was murdered in the early eighties.
- The eighties became known as the decade of the sitcom.
- The Cannery was demolished in the eighties, late seventies.
- Snow - Orhan Pamuk: religious fundamentalism clashes with militaristic state repression in eighties eastern Turkey
- One reason so many good horror writer went to seed in the eighties is they kept trying to do and say the same thing in the same way.
- The former ‘Surreal Life’ star unzipped his fly and treated Nellz to a shot of the most famous box of family jewels in eighties porn.
- I think an important feature of the eighties is the growing preeminence of government-to-government relationships in international economic decision-making.
- Rudnick's novel is affectionate and shticky, and wickedly perceptive about consumer/status culture in eighties Manhattan, when everything was literally up for grabs.
- Anyone who came through the eighties is also used to the idea that from time to time a pea-brain can take charge of the White House and make his country do very silly things.
- Yeager, now in his mid-eighties, is a supporter of right-wing right-to-life Congressmensch Duncan Hunter, who supported a bill that allows parents to sue pornographers for imperiling their children.
- Reviewed by Sally Singer ( "Retail Therapy," May 2005) "Rudnick's novel is affectionate and shticky, and wickedly perceptive about consumer/status culture in eighties Manhattan, when everything was literally up for grabs."