How to Use hippie in a Sentence

hippie

noun

• The band appeals to a new generation of hippies.
• She used to be a hippie, but she's fairly conservative now.
• There’s a touch of the beatnik and a touch of the hippie here.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
• The co-hosts joked that Rodgers could be a hippie or shaman.
  — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
• These were not on the mainstream radar - the stuff hippies eat.
  — Laura Reiley, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• The old trope was a hippie freaked out on too much acid who jumped off a roof.
  — Alex Kuczynski, Town & Country, 20 Jan. 2022
• Why are acorn woodpeckers the hippies of the bird world?
  — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The song that drew thousands to our shores during the height of the hippie movement.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• The new-look Buffs became the cool hippie cousins of Mike Leach, drawing a line in the hot Texas sand for the rest of the world to see.
  — Sean Keeler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2023
• These types of ideas and feel good phrases were once the domain of hippies and beach towns.
  — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• Of course my parents were hippies, and were at all the rock concerts.
  — Nigel Smith, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• To the untrained eye, the Light bus looks as eclectic as the hippie culture that birthed it.
  — Sameer Rao, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• One naked hippie scaled a massive beam near the stage to get a better view.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022
• That’s a tricky question, and a good one, because: What is a hippie?
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
• And, as often happens in migrations like this, the hippies paved the way for the artists.
  — Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
• That’s right, that Donato kid’s a hippie, dude, and will be at least until the end of the play’s run Aug. 21.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• Van Driessen was already kind of an old hippie back then.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2022
• While cruising around one day, a stranger called him a hippie and yelled at him to get a haircut.
  — Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
• Cheech: There was this cool hippie street culture that was evolving in cities across the U.S. ...
  — Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• Many of these ‘23 Phish fans looked more like hipsters than hippies.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 12 July 2023
• But this time, the driver is a hippie in a VW van, not a serial killer.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
• Cheech and Chong came back on stage to bring the group their trophy before Kiedis and Flea gave a hippie-like speech.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
• But Birkenstocks were once solely the province of the hippie.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
• As longhairs clad in cosmic-hippie garb, Crown Lands look the part too.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 25 Oct. 2022
• But there were not a lot of bona-fide hippies in the nineteen-sixties, either.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• The peace sign endures, as a last vestige of a bygone rock ‘n’ roll hippie past, as seen on the front of the store and side of the building.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Some models had long hippie hair; some had buzzed heads.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Mar. 2022
• With that in mind, this sensible hippie plans to stay the mismatch course.
  — Taylor Harris, WSJ, 25 June 2021
• To go back and watch those dozens of performances, from the jaded hippies to the kindly graybeards, is to see an artist who was too big for one medium.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
• In the ’60s, Venice was a rare integrated neighborhood, a hippie enclave that was also full of artists.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024