How to Use hippie in a Sentence

hippie

noun
  • The band appeals to a new generation of hippies.
  • She used to be a hippie, but she's fairly conservative now.
  • Why hippies are more than a punch line.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The old trope was a hippie freaked out on too much acid who jumped off a roof.
    — Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022
  • There were kids like us and hippies much older.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • What do the hippies call breaking that cop’s nose?
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a touch of the beatnik and a touch of the hippie here.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Why did nobody but dreamy-eyed hippies seem to be aware of this?
    — Brian Barth, Smithsonian, 3 Oct. 2017
  • These were not on the mainstream radar - the stuff hippies eat.
    — Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • There’s a tramp, a ditz, a bad boss, a hippie, a by-the-book good girl.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Once the highway opened, though, hippies flocked here in droves.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Did some touchy-feely old hippie once say that a rut is just a groove that lasts too long?
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 30 May 2018
  • Akasha Song, once a homeless hippie, had come up in the world.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
  • One naked hippie scaled a massive beam near the stage to get a better view.
    — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Of course my parents were hippies, and were at all the rock concerts.
    — Nigel Smith, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Along came these rich hippies, saying, Don’t work hard.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • These types of ideas and feel good phrases were once the domain of hippies and beach towns.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • There’s an artsy scene and a gay scene and an ex-hippie scene and a homeless scene.
    — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • His parents were hippies, Scott said.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • While cruising around one day, a stranger called him a hippie and yelled at him to get a haircut.
    — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Essential oils are no longer the domain of hippies who like the smell of patchouli.
    — Rebecca Straus, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2017
  • The song that drew thousands to our shores during the height of the hippie movement.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • With that in mind, this sensible hippie plans to stay the mismatch course.
    — Taylor Harris, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • One night, the hippie camp gets raided by the local police.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But there were not a lot of bona-fide hippies in the nineteen-sixties, either.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • Many of these ‘23 Phish fans looked more like hipsters than hippies.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 12 July 2023
  • The hippies had invented that stance.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The band toured constantly and sold respectably, but longed to break out of that hippie-folk niche.
    — Allison Stewart, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Sometimes one surly hippie – think Bernie Sanders – would hold out and refuse to leave.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
  • And, as often happens in migrations like this, the hippies paved the way for the artists.
    — Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023

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