growing old
Example Sentences
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The hitch: Major gas basins are growing old, and the country lacks the proper infrastructure to ferry molecules where they are needed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
"We've all grown up together and now we're growing old together," said Elyse.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2025
As to whether she can imagine growing old with someone else in that picture, notwithstanding her current happiness, those old ghosts breed skepticism.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024
Personally, I agree, and I also think our cultural terror of growing old must be pretty extreme when actual children are feeling it.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2024
He was growing old; he was an old broken man; and she would be young for generations.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
