Synonyms

1. 1980s

Sentence Examples

1. He had a sudden picture of her in leg warmers and poofy eighties hair.
2. As the eighties approach and the new age shoves the old out and over the hill, I still smoke, I drink before, during, and after business hours, I still think of women as dames though I rarely say it aloud.
3. But as I was saying, the early eighties brought major change.
4. His experience of patrolling football grounds in the late eighties had taught him that most of the violence was not as organised or orchestrated as newspapers or TV documentaries pretended.
5. You see, the early eighties was a period of transition in race relations, mostly for the better.
6. The glossy black-and-white finish to the print dated it seventies or early eighties.
7. Even though her father was in his seventies, old was someone in their eighties or nineties.
8. Now she dreamed of taking up for real the running craze that had started at the beginning of the eighties.
9. A DJ in bright pink louvered sunglasses was pounding out eighties music from a pair of speakers set on either side of the stage, trying to get the kids excited.
10. A crowd of them, dressed up in what the Internet told them people in the eighties wore, were bouncing on the dance floor in the middle of the gym.