senior citizen
Example Sentences
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“I just want them to pay me back my hard earned money,” the complainant wrote, “since I am a retired senior citizen who happened to love this country.”
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
There were only 2.5 working-age people for each senior citizen last year, down from 3.6 in 2009, the report says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
For a senior citizen on a fixed income, the chance that larger refund “gets spent is extremely high,” Mills said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
“I don’t know of any other person of, you know, senior citizen age that would put up with this,” she added, calling her husband a “trouper.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
Demographic change is too slow and subtle a process—you don’t graduate from teenage hoodlum to senior citizen in just a few years—to even begin to explain the suddenness of the crime decline.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
