How to Use hippie in a Sentence

hippie

noun
Definition of hippienext
  • 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
  • Dress code: When on Haight Street, do what the hippies do.
    — Emma Silvers, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 June 2018
  • 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
  • Once the highway opened, though, hippies flocked here in droves.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Did some touchy-feely old hippie once say that a rut is just a groove that lasts too long?
    — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 30 May 2018
  • These types of ideas and feel good phrases were once the domain of hippies and beach towns.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
  • But a lot of things were happening in the 60s, like the hippie movement.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Of course my parents were hippies, and were at all the rock concerts.
    — Nigel Smith, PEOPLE.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • This is the way hippies, yippies, and Marxists used to talk.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In the end, that capitalist DNA might be the thing that gives it the legs to last longer than, say, the hippie communes of the '60s.
    — Benjy Hansen-Bundy, GQ, 27 Feb. 2018
  • There’s an artsy scene and a gay scene and an ex-hippie scene and a homeless scene.
    — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • 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 | Mwake@al.com, 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
  • Rhys Ifans is an alien-loving hippie in a van with his granola family?
    — James Grebey, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Dead fans from all across the planet flocked to Las Vegas to see them, turning the town into an unlikely hippie mecca throughout the summer.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024

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