flower child

noun

: a hippie who advocates love, beauty, and peace

Examples of flower child in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To be fair, there is a certain pathos to Wenders’s portrait of a superfluous 21st-century man, a flower child who has lived long enough to see the glorious music of his youth become analog keepsakes. —

Hazlitt, 15 May 2024 The two-story space is colorfully but neatly organized with artwork and stacks of pillows that come together to create a flower child’s utopia. —

Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2024 The Bay Area was the epicenter of the country’s social upheaval—the previous year’s Summer of Love, which had drawn thousands of flower children to the Haight-Ashbury district, was already a memory. —

Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 At the time, white flower children were running away from their parents’ conventions and expectations, dressing in rags and wandering the streets of San Francisco. —

Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Aug. 2023 See all Example Sentences for flower child

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