grown old
Example Sentences
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Ratkovich renovated some of the city’s best-known architectural gems that had fallen on hard times in an era when ever-evolving L.A. wasn’t much interested in preserving buildings that had grown old and were considered obsolete.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023
“I have grown old in your service,” the silver-haired, perennially tanned Barker joked on a prime-time television retrospective in the mid-’90s.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2023
“It’s babies and grown old men out here,” said Dioren Hallums, 34, on a blazing afternoon earlier in the summer.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2022
His was a rare young face in a political party whose stalwarts had grown old battling the military generals who had ruled Myanmar for nearly five decades, a period of international isolation and destruction.
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022
Most of the earliest settlers, those with their histories recorded in the museum, had grown old and were gone now.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
