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Fifties in a sentence
Fifties meaning
plural of fifty
Using Fifties
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of fifty
- Useful related words include: 1950s, decade, decennary, decennium.
- In the example corpus, fifties often appears in combinations such as: the fifties, fifties and, her fifties.
Context around Fifties
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 11 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fifties
- In this selection, "fifties" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nineteen, late, two, india and genetic stand out and add context to how "fifties" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include forties and fifties and and four fifties with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fifties" sits close to words such as abeokuta, abstained and accenture, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fifties
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everything to do with underwear matters 100 per cent more as you enter your fifties. (15 words)
In 25 innings, he has scored six tons and four fifties with a best score of 169. (17 words)
Much like nuclear fears in the fifties, genetic manipulation was the dominant fear of the new century. (17 words)
And we’ve never said how old Sheldon is as the narrator in Young Sheldon, but we figure he has a couple of kids who are probably the age he is in Young Sheldon, who are probably ten or eleven, which means he’s probably in his fifties. (48 words)
Graham Sprackling was behind the wheel of the mobile library van in south and central Herefordshire from the fifties into the eighties, serving readers in Ross-on-Wye and across the Golden Valley and Black Mountains areas. (37 words)
I mean, if something happens in New York, then the entire country hears about it and it's kind of been that way since the, you know, the golden age of early television in the fifties. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
After all, ask the average person on the street if they know who Oscar Levant was and they will likely respond with a blank stare, especially since his popularity peaked in the forties and fifties.
And we’ve never said how old Sheldon is as the narrator in Young Sheldon, but we figure he has a couple of kids who are probably the age he is in Young Sheldon, who are probably ten or eleven, which means he’s probably in his fifties.
And who truly cannot be replicated by AI because what’s the AI basing the stories off of the ones from what westerns from the fifties, and they’re horribly biased points of view.
A new book evokes the secret cinematic revolution that took place in plain sight in the nineteen-fifties.
Directors may have worked with composers, probably not in the thirties and forties, but maybe in the fifties and sixties.
George Lucas managed to amplify the already-nostalgic mood on his “summer of 62” film by choosing songs from the mid-to-late Fifties as the lead tracks on the American Graffiti soundtrack.
Graham Sprackling was behind the wheel of the mobile library van in south and central Herefordshire from the fifties into the eighties, serving readers in Ross-on-Wye and across the Golden Valley and Black Mountains areas.
He has scored three centuries and two fifties this year in 11 innings, with the best score of 195*.
However, in his 29 Tests, whenever he took wickets or scored fifties, India either won or saved the game.
I mean, if something happens in New York, then the entire country hears about it and it's kind of been that way since the, you know, the golden age of early television in the fifties.
In 25 innings, he has scored six tons and four fifties with a best score of 169.
Mr. Anderson visited his grandfather and uncle there within the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties, when neighbors would come by to look at “Bonanza” or hockey video games on the tv.
Much like nuclear fears in the fifties, genetic manipulation was the dominant fear of the new century.
Rock Climber Rescued - A woman in her fifties was rescued, having suffered a heart attack whilst climbing La Tête de Chien in La Turbie.
Tammy Beaumont’s first-innings double ton, the attacking fifties from Heather Knight and Nat Sciver-Brunt, the pitch that still looked nice for batting when players timed their shots, all of it was there.
There’s nobody at the wheel,” said Rachel Sadeh, a mother of three in her fifties who immigrated to Israel many years ago from the former Soviet Union.
Bugsy Siegel, the notorious gangster, held sway here for years as the mafia pretty much ran Las Vegas in the forties and fifties.
Emergency teams worked through the night and on Tuesday pulled two bodies from the building, including a woman in her fifties.
Everything to do with underwear matters 100 per cent more as you enter your fifties.
Gill has so far played 21 T20Is and has a hundred, three fifties to his credit besides a strike rate of nearly 140.
Common combinations with fifties
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: