How to Use "eighties" with Example Sentences

1. In the eighteen eighties , ferdinand de lesseps -- builder of the suez canal -- formed a french company to build a waterway across panama .
2. In the nineteen eighties , he taught english in morocco as a peace corps volunteer .
3. Mr li shows no signs of flagging , but the reality is that , like many first-generation founders of businesses in hong kong , he is in his eighties .
4. All these supplement the standard biographies , which include martin gilbert 's official multivolume history , published in the nineteen-seventies and eighties , jenkins 's single-volume life , from 2001 , and john keegan 's crisp and authoritative life , from the year after .
5. The central part of the united states suffered its own economic crisis in the nineteen eighties . The price of farm land dropped and banks no longer provided the credit farmers needed . Unemployment reduced the population .