old person

Example Sentences

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And yet they just don't have that thing that the old person has, right?

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024

Until that moment I saw myself as coping well with my Parkinson's and definitely not as an old person.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023

This presumes that the only thing that is different between a young person and an old person is their age when, in fact, that’s not quite true.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2023

I understand that I’m 83, and normally that’s an old person in people’s minds.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Anxious to rescue in the course of a few months what had lain in ruins for years, the patron hired every man, woman, old person, and child who could stand on his own two feet.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende