How to Use ninety in a Sentence

ninety

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  • During the nineties, he was going to college and working part-time.
  • Slowdive produced some of the most of the nineties, and the band has now for this decade.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 May 2017
  • In the nineties, the rules for how to be cool were pretty simple.
    — Rebecca Schuman, Longreads, 28 Mar. 2018
  • First, a man in his nineties who had made his way to the Homer High School in the middle of the night.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2018
  • That happened with a lot of black TV making in the nineties.
    — Jonny Auping, Longreads, 25 June 2019
  • The soundtrack to our freedom was the country music of the nineties.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
  • That was certainly true for me, in college in the nineties.
    — Maris Kreizman, The New Republic, 14 June 2019
  • If memory serves, the late-nineties price was $8 per foot.
    — Ben Hewitt, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
  • If memory serves, the late-nineties price was $8 per foot.
    — Ben Hewitt, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2017
  • Our fans who were with us in the nineties now have children and grandchildren.
    — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The eighties and nineties were quite cynical in many ways.
    — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The beginning of the worst chapter of Rousey's childhood came in the early nineties.
    — Mary Pilon, Esquire, 10 Nov. 2015
  • RuPaul herself paved her road to stardom in the city's iconic clubs of the nineties.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
  • Mary, who is in her nineties and lives alone, asked that her full name not be used for safety reasons.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Fans of The Nanny rejoice: The classic nineties sitcom just might be coming back to the small screen.
    — Emily Wang, Glamour, 19 June 2018
  • My mom was 96, my dad was 88, my dad's sisters all went way into their nineties.
    — SI.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • In the nineties, the billionaire financier Ronald Perelman became a friend and client of Gagosian’s.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • But The Girl—overall very nineties low-key, clubby music.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Dec. 2014
  • The missile pulled lead, then did a ninety degree reversal and hit the aircraft in the tail.
    — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2019
  • Okay, so this is certainly out there, even by nineties' kit standards.
    — SI.com, 28 June 2019
  • Her fresh flavors and worldly approach were part of Cranks’ attempt to update its brown-ricey brand for the nineties.
    — Julia Tausch, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2018
  • Hurst, as a Pittsburgh Pirate minor-league pitcher throwing in the mid-nineties, got the yips and had to quit baseball.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • In the nineties, when the internet really began to take off, feuds that used to spread through word of mouth took on a new life online.
    — Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, 6 July 2023
  • In the nineties, Katumbi moved to Zambia to expand the family’s fish business.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2019
  • My professor Bob Norman for that course, who has to be in his mid-nineties now, is still going strong at last check.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 12 June 2018
  • Kids of the sixties had their Easy-Bake Ovens and nineties babies wouldn't go anywhere without those Tamagotchis.
    — Lindsey Murray, Good Housekeeping, 29 June 2018
  • That tree, with roots that go back to the beginning, still stands—as does their signature blue door, which has welcome guests to the restaurant since the nineties.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2018
  • In the late nineties, Susan Cox, a Korean adoptee, came up with the idea of convening adult Korean adoptees for the first time.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In the nineties, best friends would express their love for each other with matching broken heart necklaces.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Martha Graham, who died in 1991, lived to ninety-six, and had gone on choreographing well into her nineties.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019

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