How to Use fifty in a Sentence

fifty

noun
  • She is in her fifties.
  • The bill for dinner came to $43, and she gave him a fifty.
  • They were laid off in their fifties.
    — Dwight Earl Williams, Oc Register, 4 June 2026
  • Bryant, who is Black, is in his late fifties.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Mira pulled out a fifties-style blue frock.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Each of them had their first heart attack in their late fifties.
    — Caroline Manzo, Woman's Day, 5 Feb. 2015
  • This is not something that people cared about as much in the fifties.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Castro was a fit man, slim, with good muscle tone, in his late fifties.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Gard, a childless man in his mid-fifties, did not relish the task at hand.
    — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • The man was described as a white male in his fifties, wearing a white t-shirt.
    — Joseph Clark, cleveland.com, 27 June 2017
  • Adamee's father, now in his fifties, grew up in snow houses, skin tents, and sod huts.
    — Sheldon Teitelbaum, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1997
  • The retro fifties and sixties vibe is right at home in arty Wellington.
    — Petrina Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Only in her mid-fifties, Midge is busy and content in her life.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 May 2026
  • In his mid-fifties, Damon eschewed gluten and did many pullups.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • The people that sit around me are mainly blokes in their fifties and sixties.
    — Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
  • One guest in her fifties shared that her mother had died during childbirth.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • That's such a holdover from the seventies or even the fifties and sixties.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2014
  • But this doesn’t make characters in their forties and fifties old.
    — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • Sinatra’s great albums of the mid-fifties were heavy with theatre songs.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Not the only gay woman and not the only woman in her fifties!
    — Michael Cuby, Them, 2 Oct. 2024
  • There are stories of people who met in grade school that reconnect in their fifties.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Founders in their fifties were more than two and half times more likely to hit those marks than ones in their mid-twenties.
    — Wired, 22 Oct. 2019
  • His colleagues were men in their fifties and sixties who’d started out in radio.
    — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Dry feet and legs are essential for spring and late fall fishing when water temps are in the fifties.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Among the attendees was Kurt Almqvist, a white-haired man in his mid-fifties.
    — Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Hefty, gentle, and in his fifties, he was known to be faithful to friends and to enjoy a glass and a fine meal.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • She’d been raised in the fifties and taught by her mother to mend clothes and look after her belongings.
    — Greta Gerwig, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The victim has so far only been identified as a man in his forties or fifties.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Bianca seems to at least be in her thirties, which would most likely mean her aunt is in her fifties or sixties.
    — Marah Eakin, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
  • Most visitors to the site are women, with an average age in the fifties.
    — Ruby Tandoh, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2024

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