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

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

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

Early on, few artists worked harder or longer than Mr. Weir and the Grateful Dead to establish and define the rock-concert ethos while advancing hippie culture.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

That may sound like hippie woo-woo nonsense, but I’m too young to be a member of the “Woodstock generation.”

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

He had the same curly hair, shaggy beard, and intelligent eyes—a look somewhere between wild hippie and fatherly professor, except this man’s skin was the color of a lima bean.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan