How to Use sixty in a Sentence

sixty

noun
  • He retired when he was in his sixties.
  • Even in her sixties, Moore still had it.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The sixties were one of the most creative decades for the arts.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The sixties were one of the most creative decades for the arts.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The people that sit around me are mainly blokes in their fifties and sixties.
    — Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
  • That's such a holdover from the seventies or even the fifties and sixties.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2014
  • There were more spy series in the sixties other than the four above, of course.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • What was your personal style in the late sixties?
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Some people are in their sixties, and they’re retired and just want a free pass.
    — Corey Buhay, Outside, 5 Dec. 2025
  • There were other sixties shows with wacky premises, too.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Since the mid-sixties, kids have grown up watching him, and now their kids are doing the same.
    — Alex Shoemaker, Parents, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Back in the sixties, there was a threat to your life on a whole different level.
    — Sopan Deb, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Like many people, Baldwin got caught up in the sixties.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Imagine a group of a thousand heavy smokers in their sixties.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • His colleagues were men in their fifties and sixties who’d started out in radio.
    — Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Just like the kids of the sixties couldn’t believe their grandmothers didn’t have the right to vote.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Highs will top out in the low sixties with cloudy skies throughout the day and overnight lows in the low 50s.
    — Mike Rose, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2020
  • At the start of the movie, Ray looks to be on the young side of old, early to mid-sixties, and plump.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Tamarkin’s book is a kind of time capsule of the late sixties and early seventies.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The people around him are all in their late sixties, seventies or eighties.
    — Laignee Barron / Taipei, Time, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Now, the youngest boomers are in their early sixties and the oldest are nearing their eighties.
    — Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The sport was very cruel in those decades, the sixties, the seventies and part of the eighties.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
  • For starters, Freud wrote a number of his most important books in his fifties and sixties.
    — Steven Kotler, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Now in her sixties, Hoover can pinpoint a teenage trip to Paris as a turning point.
    — Margaret Sutherlin, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2018
  • In spaceflight terms, six landings on the moon back in the sixties and seventies doesn't mean much.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The defendants, who pleaded guilty to these crimes, ranged in age from their twenties to sixties.
    — Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Maahi*, who appears to be in her sixties, lives in a village close to where Samta lives.
    — Seema Yasmin, SELF, 17 Aug. 2018
  • But the oldest baby boomers turn 80 this year, and the youngest are in their early sixties.
    — Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Price, now in his sixties, had managed a remarkable second act.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Mae is a woman in her sixties who views her, now far from glamorous, life with a dry, offbeat sense of humor.
    — Rachel Connolly, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023

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