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
  • The Bobby Prince stuff for the series in the nineties is iconic.
    — Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • 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
  • This was like in the late nineties, how bad the porters were being treated.
    — Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2025
  • And the vibe is not complete without jazz or a nineties playlist.
    — Akili King, Essence, 17 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Of course, de-aging techniques have come a long way since the nineties.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The temperature dropped, but not by much, maybe high nineties in the run-up to dawn.
    — Outside Online, 23 Oct. 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
  • That’s a reference to a luxury cruise ship ad from the nineties, by the way.
    — Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024
  • 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 bar’s iconic nineties movie portraits will be swapped out for photos of Mr. and Mrs. Claus.
    — Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • In the early nineties, Orlik signed the lease on the apartment in Kensington.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
  • 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
  • Can’t imagine many who lived through the nineties wanting it any other way.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • The over-all effect is like watching a movie that’s supposed to be set in the nineties and spotting a Tesla in the background.
    — Tyler Foggatt, New Yorker, 8 June 2025

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