How to Use fifty in a Sentence

fifty

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  • She is in her fifties.
  • The bill for dinner came to $43, and she gave him a fifty.
  • Each of them had their first heart attack in their late fifties.
    — Caroline Manzo, Woman's Day, 5 Feb. 2015
  • That's such a holdover from the seventies or even the fifties and sixties.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 26 Mar. 2014
  • The man was described as a white male in his fifties, wearing a white t-shirt.
    — Joseph Clark, cleveland.com, 27 June 2017
  • Gard, a childless man in his mid-fifties, did not relish the task at hand.
    — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
  • Castro was a fit man, slim, with good muscle tone, in his late fifties.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Adamee's father, now in his fifties, grew up in snow houses, skin tents, and sod huts.
    — Sheldon Teitelbaum, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1997
  • Sinatra’s great albums of the mid-fifties were heavy with theatre songs.
    — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
  • According to Lester, all of the steps in your skin care routine from your 20s will show on your skin in your fifties.
    — Shelby Stewart and India Espy-Jones, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Here's Bieber and Gomez riding down the street on bicycles like two fifties kids en route to a sock hop.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Somewhere around mile fifty, Sam’s body begins to give out.
    — Amar Chebib, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Founders in their fifties were more than two and half times more likely to hit those marks than ones in their mid-twenties.
    — Wired, 22 Oct. 2019
  • She’d been raised in the fifties and taught by her mother to mend clothes and look after her belongings.
    — Greta Gerwig, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The body Like anyone else who remains so lean, lithe and toned in their fifties, Aniston works hard to achieve that body.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Dry feet and legs are essential for spring and late fall fishing when water temps are in the fifties.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The brothers are both in their fifties, and as the album title suggests, middle age seems to suit them.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2024
  • For starters, Freud wrote a number of his most important books in his fifties and sixties.
    — Steven Kotler, Time, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The men are now in their early fifties preparing to enter adulthood on the outside for the first time.
    — Anna Sturla, CNN, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The couple’s activism goes back to the fifties and sixties, during the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
  • One guest in her fifties shared that her mother had died during childbirth.
    — Greg Garrison | , al, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Dream, a former clown born Richard Archer, was a grim and lanky guy in his fifties who always had a black pit bull named Bleau Bell by his side.
    — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • For a man in his fifties setting up a home for the first time, these are immense accomplishments.
    — Jennifer Egan, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • There are stories of people who met in grade school that reconnect in their fifties.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Haley and Scott are both in their fifties, which is on the younger end of the crowded field of Republican hopefuls.
    — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The silhouettes reimagine the styles of the fifties through eighties with modern updates.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019
  • South Carolina was on the east bank and Georgia on the west; the temperature was in the fifties, and gray clouds spat water in our faces.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
  • Not just throughout his fifties and sixties, but beyond.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 29 June 2019
  • The next person to enter was a man in his fifties with thick glasses, one of the holdouts from the neighboring housing project.
    — Ben Austen, The New Republic, 21 June 2018
  • The victim has so far only been identified as a man in his forties or fifties.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 4 Dec. 2019

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