How to Use old age in a Sentence

old age

noun
Definition of old agenext
  • By the time life was brought to perfection, old age had arrived.
    — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • He is played in old age by Will Lyman, who does not appear until very late in the play.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Winter is coming, and so is adulthood, and so is old age.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
  • After a lifetime spent on the sandy shores, Daisy died of old age on October 15.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Aging research doesn’t tend to be about finding the one cure that fixes all that may ail you in old age.
    — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
  • As 86-year-olds tell it, old age can be lonely, amazing, a time of letting go, a time of fighting to hang on.
    — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Many of her clients were wealthy noblemen and statesmen who had promised to support her in her old age.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • With all the aches and pains that attend old age, how many Americans would really want to live to 100?
    — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Some have children or grandchildren to help provide for them in their old age.
    — Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Only four of their girls made it past childhood, and only one into old age.
    — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
  • That was especially true with those scenes in which Michael played my father in his old age.
    — Georgette Jones, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The musical follows the duo from different worlds through their youth to their old age across a lifetime of love and in the face of forces that threaten it.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But Hendricks still devoted much of his time to caring for their parents in their old age.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In exchange, lawmakers want to make sure that people use the money for their own old age and not for other things.
    — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 June 2024
  • After her father, Fritz, died about a decade ago, his brother lived there alone until old age forced him out.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • In her old age, and her more solitary life, my grandmother has slipped more and more into Shanghainese.
    — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • For many transgender seniors, it’s brought new fears to their plans for retirement and old age.
    — Andrew Demillo, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • During one of those jumps, a woman was purposefully left out of her bobble and dies of old age.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • For better or worse, Raquel Welch was the rare star who maintained her bombshell status, well into her old age.
    — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Camera and optical implants could improve our vision and make the decline of eyesight in old age a thing of the past.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • For some trans elders, including Smith's friend Pearl Love, the camaraderie in old age has been a lifeline.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 June 2024
  • The seven plagues of California’s piers are fire, ocean storms, fire, old age, civic budgets, ship worms called teredos, and fire.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • But advances in hygiene and medicine have rendered both longevity and cancer in old age common.
    — David J. Waters, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • This may be good news for older workers who are trying to stave off poverty in old age by continuing to work.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Chances of reaching old age did not increase further with more exercise.
    — Steven Reinberg, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2019
  • Funds raised benefit entertainers across the U.K. who need help and assistance in old age, poor health or hard times.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Many artists—Titian and de Kooning alike—have found a second childhood in old age; no other painter ever became younger in his sixties.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Kirkland leads a group at the Mayo Clinic that showed mice without senescent cells live healthier into old age.
    — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But Oedipus alone grasped the correct answer: a human being, which crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and uses a walking stick in old age.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
  • State of play: Latinos in the 18- to 29-year old age bracket tend to lean independent and are less likely to commit to a political party than some of their elders, analysts say.
    — Astrid Galván, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024

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