How to Use ninety in a Sentence

ninety

noun
  • 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
  • A lot of fans in the nineties are nostalgic for the blaring.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 2 July 2024
  • So, well, from my twenties to my nineties is about 70 years.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2024
  • 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
  • And then in the nineties there was this multiracial movement.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Those shops were demolished in the nineties to make way for a multiplex and a Barnes & Noble.
    Laura Preston, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • 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
  • Andy, in the nineties when, when Microsoft came out with a new Windows version, right?
    Andy Mills, Quartz, 20 June 2024
  • Barb Wire, the Pam Anderson vehicle from the mid nineties.
    Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Growing up in Denver in the nineties, Strassburger never planned to become a priest.
    Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024

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