sixties

Examples

• All

• Beside the next bed, an Italian woman in her sixties murmured over her dying son.

  Fiction book (1997)

• The chairperson was a ruddy man in his sixties named Davidson.

  Fiction book (1991)

• In his early sixties, he was a federal judge and lived in Kent, about forty miles away.

  Fiction book (1991)

• He's probably in his sixties.

  The Riverbank (2012)

• Most were men in their sixties or seventies who had served in earlier wars.

  Academic text (2003)

• Nora was a well-educated woman in her sixties living in a small town in Switzerland.

  Academic text (1994)

• But a lot of them are now in their fifties and sixties, some of them in their seventies, and somebody is going to have to be there to tell their stories.

  After Porn Ends (2012)

• Mrs. Braxton-Hancock was in her sixties, a tiny bundle of energy with birdlike motions.

  Fiction book (1991)

• The speaker was a powerful-looking man in his late sixties, bullnecked, sun-wrinkled, his bristly hair gone the color of snow.

  Fiction book (1998)

• It's important for people in their sixties not to have all their assets in the stock market.

Synonyms

M

mid-sixties

vssixties

3.1

A time in life around sixty-five years old

is the whole decade from sixty to seventy rather than a narrow middle part

Compounds

M

mid-sixties

3.1

A time in life around sixty-five years old

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology