old age
Example Sentences
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The liver can produce large amounts of protein even in old age.
From Science Daily
The definitional creep of what we now consider middle age—pushed back, perhaps, because of the increasing delay in starting families—means that it often overlaps with the territory of old age.
The judgement states the judge was lenient in sentencing because of Khan's "old age".
From BBC
The British novelist Elizabeth Taylor—forever cursed by a reputation as a great but underrated writer—frames Mrs. Palfrey’s struggle to endure the humiliations of old age as both tragic and comic.
Oedipus knew that it was us, from crawling baby to upright maturity to old age, when a staff or cane becomes a third foot.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
