How to Use aged in a Sentence

aged

adjective
  • There are places that make the fresh sheep cheese, but ours are aged.
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The oldest victim was 72 years old and the youngest was aged 2.
    Kelly McCleary, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The middle-aged couple next to us is in the midst of a three-hour-long make-out session.
    Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Better to used coarse, aged wood mulch than fresh chips.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • According to Reuters, the child and her two brothers, aged 12 and 15, all worked for the plant.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Better to use coarse, aged wood mulch than fresh chips.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
  • That left only Robyn, the hot young brunette who was by now middle-aged, and...
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The sconces are Mitzi’s Fifi picture light in aged brass.
    Kristen Flanagan, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In the fall, a middle-aged man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of leaves.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Queen Elizabeth II, the British monarch, has died aged 96.
    Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Wrapped in a hazmat suit, she's led to the corpse of a middle-aged woman with a gnarly bite on her left leg.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • So this makes the Kong Flyer one of the best dog toys of 2022 for younger, middle aged, and senior dogs alike.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The world needs a plan to adapt The risks of aged, polluting cars sent abroad will not be borne by the Global South alone.
    David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Other rums are aged and then filtered to remove the color—and in the process, a lot of the flavor as well.
    Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
  • And amazingly, more than a third of those streams came from young people aged 18 to 24.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The birth attendant reached a middle-aged woman in the crowd.
    Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • The dumbstruck crowd watched as aged captain Patrice Bergeron trudged to the room in the funeral din of the Garden.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • So these homeowners set the brick in sand, rather than concrete, to give a relaxed and aged look.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The room filled with laughter and swapped gossip over plates of aged toma-hawk, Dover sole, and Limone pasta topped with caviar.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
  • First person in line is a middle-aged man, small and skinny.
    The Indianapolis Star, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Radiation was found to be the treatment method that aged patients the fastest.
    Lauryn Higgins, Health, 27 July 2023
  • For decades, car crashes were the leading cause of death for young Americans, aged 1 to 19.
    Brooke Baitinger, Sun Sentinel, 9 June 2022
  • Middle-aged in his mid 30s, he’s had a crazy life and may be the world’s most famous manatee.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
  • For years, middle-aged and older men were the groups most likely to die by suicide.
    Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Those choices align with these middle-aged East Coast men.
    New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In recent years, Bleh told me, most of his customers who buy veal are aged 60 or older.
    Keith Pandolfi, Saveur, 15 May 2024
  • The resident refused to open the door and told the middle-aged White man with a scruffy beard and hippy clothing to leave.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Dear Amy: My son and daughter are now middle-aged, and my parents have been gone for more than 20 years.
    Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Aside from going for a walk every day with her daughters (now aged 7 and 5) in the stroller, Wynne also changed her diet.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • To that end, the William Morris wallpaper in the pantry was varnished for an aged, wax-cloth effect, and the enchanting powder room in the playroom is enveloped in a personalized mural.
    Busola Evans, Architectural Digest, 9 Dec. 2024

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