hippie

Example Sentences

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Whiteman has always been culturally engaged, his father was a jazz musician, but in his youth some team-mates would call him a "hippie".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

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

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

I don’t recognize the song she puts on, but it’s not the hippie stuff I am expecting.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon