old age

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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 The Wall Street Journal

That sounds like an oxymoron: We don’t tend to expect illness or old age to create a problem in our life when we are young, but preparing for such eventualities is important.

From MarketWatch

Like Matisse in old age, drawing from his bed, Frank’s protean creativity, his legacy of mastery is everlasting.

From Los Angeles Times