How to Use ninety in a Sentence

ninety

noun
  • During the nineties, he was going to college and working part-time.
  • But that was the early nineties.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Lazar has been working in the mountains since the nineties.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Lazar has been working in the mountains since the nineties.
    — Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And the vibe is not complete without jazz or a nineties playlist.
    — Akili King, Essence, 17 Feb. 2025
  • In the nineties, the rules for how to be cool were pretty simple.
    — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Uhhuh in the, in the early nineties.
    — Outside Online, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, de-aging techniques have come a long way since the nineties.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This was like in the late nineties, how bad the porters were being treated.
    — Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2025
  • By the nineties, punk zines had been around long enough to be taken for granted.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Slowdive produced some of the most of the nineties, and the band has now for this decade.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
  • Our fans who were with us in the nineties now have children and grandchildren.
    — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • And then in the nineties there was this multiracial movement.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Can’t imagine many who lived through the nineties wanting it any other way.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • Since the mid-nineties, all my visits have been work-related.
    — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Okay, so this is certainly out there, even by nineties' kit standards.
    — SI.com, 28 June 2019
  • Mary, who is in her nineties and lives alone, asked that her full name not be used for safety reasons.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The temperature dropped, but not by much, maybe high nineties in the run-up to dawn.
    — Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This was Midland, Texas, in the eighties and nineties.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • The soundtrack to our freedom was the country music of the nineties.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • That’s a reference to a luxury cruise ship ad from the nineties, by the way.
    — Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024
  • In the late nineties, Vince built a story line around a version of himself.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • There used to be raves there in the nineties, in this natural amphitheatre.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But until the early nineties, breath-holding wasn’t a sport but a means to a living.
    — Sean Williams, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
  • These useful totes are reminiscent of nineties-era swim bags.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 27 June 2026
  • In the nineties, everyone smoked cigarettes by the gross.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Returning to a nineties setting didn’t quite work either.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The Bobby Prince stuff for the series in the nineties is iconic.
    — Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • My mom was 96, my dad was 88, my dad's sisters all went way into their nineties.
    — SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • In the late nineties, the artist Marilyn Minter was in exile.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025

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