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How to use the word hippie in a Sentence?

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I hired a young hippie woman out of the University of California at Santa Cruz to teach us the lingo.

Trader Joe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What's different is that( Chang-Díaz) is no backbencher, she's no granola hippie who just showed up on the political scene, she's been doing this work, she's been making these relationships, she's been fighting.

Prerna Jagadeesh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In the past when I was on protests, it was always people shouting out of the cars,' get a job, get a bath, get a haircut,' so, am I a dole-scrounging hippie, or am I middle class and privileged ? Just by stepping forward, somehow you become scrutinized, rather than the actual issues that count.

Gail Bradbrook

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I see our picture, a couple in love. In the full frame of the picture to our right is our Marine Vietnam vet, Corky. He's sleeping so he's the peace. On the other side is the butterfly. That's hope, and I sincerely wish that future generations get that same feeling from that picture. There's always hope, no matter how chaotic. If you have love and peace and trust, there's always hope. And while I certainly wasn't a hippie back in 1969, I think deep in my heart I am one now.

Bobbi Ercoline

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you run a positive campaign, the voters will ultimately make the right choice, jimmy, that was a joke, and shave that wig offyour face you godless Hollywood hippie.

Jeb Bush

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I will transform you from hippie, tree-hugging, artsy-fartsies, into educated, well-spoken young men and women.

David J. Gannon

added by anonymous
9 years ago

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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