hippie

Example Sentences

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But he articulated things that hadn’t been part of the American grain, becoming his country’s poet laureate of nature and ethics and its hippie Founding Father.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Elsewhere in the documentary, narrated by Kate Winslet, he is described as a "bit of a hippie".

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

Where the slop bowl is optimized for throughput, the hippie bowl is the product of belief.

From Salon • Jan. 13, 2026

His hippie character pushed the bigoted Bunker and viewers at home to examine their political biases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Amazingly, the hippie, whose name was Leo, was quite angry that I didn’t spend more time carving mandolin struts or warping boards or whatever it was I was supposed to be doing up there.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt