elderly
Example Sentences
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Some 17,000 people, many of them elderly, were caught up in the fraud, prosecutors said.
To my right, an elderly man crouched, covering his wife.
Conversations around social isolation tend to focus on the elderly, especially around Christmas.
From BBC
He thinks of his elderly neighbors whose entire lives were upended in their final years.
From Los Angeles Times
Most in attendance were elderly women, whom Davis affectionately calls “holler grannies,” using the term for the narrow, sheltered valleys where extended families often live here.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
