oldness

Example Sentences

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Slate tracked the question in real time, adding and subtracting years of seeming oldness to Biden’s baseline age of 263 as he delivered remarks for a bit over an hour.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024

Nostalgia became a default listening mode — and for me, the cumulative oldness felt distressingly new.

From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2021

What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

I say newness, but fashion, like most art, depends on recycled and rejiggered oldness for raw material.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011

Mr. Ray pulled an extra chair up as I stared at all the oldness.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds