forties in English

noun

years between 1940 and 1949, decade of the 1940's

Use "forties" in a sentence

1. Late forties?

2. Be a Forties Femme in a Waist Cinching Girdle

3. The guy was in his late forties, head of his department.

4. In the mid-nineteen-forties, the American folklorist Gershon Legman began studying origami.

5. I am a child of the forties, of radio and World War II.

6. A journalist, who liked traveling, started a new career in her forties as a tour guide.

7. Star animator Glen Keane, now in his forties, has long wanted to explore non-Disney projects.

8. Six feet tall, he was in his forties, had a long bony face tapering to a pointed jaw.

9. In his late forties he was tall and spare, with a ruddy skin and bright blue eyes.

10. Blockhead is an OBSE plugin in its late forties that has had enough of the Oblivion engine’s limitations

11. He looked like he was in his early forties with thin, wavy gray hair and a sorrowful expression.

12. Treatment of blacks altered slightly with the great depression of the thirties and the economic boom of the wartime forties.

13. In the early forties researchers reasserted an earlier observation that children who had had recent tonsillectomies were prone to contracting polio.

14. Apr 5, 2012 - Explore 1940s.org - The Forties Decade's board "1940's Advertisements", followed by 1114 people on Pinterest

15. In his forties, Jobs seems to have mellowed, as a leader if not as a crusader for Mac-style computing.

16. Caroline is in her late forties; she resembles a five-foot potato with black tufts of Raggedy Ann yarn for hair.

17. Charlotte: Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment.

18. His joint was taken from his hand by a man in his forties with a studded leather jacket flung across his lap.

19. The Alley oop sunday was very nice at the beginning, became brilliant in the early forties and mantained a hight standard until 1950

20. Bacteriophagic medicine was available in the West before the forties but was discontinued when penicillin and other "miracle antibiotics" came out

21. Most people start to develop Cataracts after the age of 65, but some people in their forties and fifties can also develop Cataracts

22. Tasmania's landmass of 68,401 km2 (26,410 sq mi) is located directly in the pathway of the notorious "Roaring Forties" wind that encircles the globe.

23. The Internet has a fair selection of vintage images of strippers and Burlesque dancers from the nineteen-forties, the fifties, sixties, seventies, and so on

24. Hot flashes occur in up to 40 % of regularly menstruating women in their forties , so they may begin before the menstrual irregularities characteristic of menopause begin .

25. Traditional Yeshiva Bochur’s outfit – jacket and dark hat while they, men in their mid-thirties and forties are dressed in dark clothing crowned by large, black yarmulkes

26. Lt. Heilig, a slightly paunchy man in his forties, listened carefully, asked a few questions, then gave an order to his subaltern, a strapping young sergeant: "Hugo, notify the mountain rescue."

27. Now, with forties printed dresses, Bunchily pleated washed-brocade skirts, and crewel-work appliquéd tops, they're sailing along somewhere in the same waters as Prada and Marni—but with

28. Late in life, Michelangelo nurtured a great platonic love for the poet and noble widow Vittoria Colonna, whom he met in Rome in 1536 or 1538 and who was in her late forties at the time.

29. I said , holding up a photo of a man in his mid-forties , with droopy jowls and yellowed teeth , and another of a woman in her twenties , with bangs poufed high above her head and gobby eyes coated with too much mascara .