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

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

But I am realizing, now that I'm in the middle of oldness, there's something wrong with me: It doesn't go in; I just never let it get to me.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019

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

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011

I watched them, feeling very young and inexperienced and yet strangely old, with an oldness that watched and waited quietly within me.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison