Sentence for older | Use older in a sentence

Sentences using the word older. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use older in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for older.

• The farm is older. (2)
• Well; you are older. (10)
• You are one day older. (10)
• The older woman nodded. (10)
• At least, I am immensely older. (10)
• Caroline Ormond was hardly older. (10)
• Gregory had grown distinctly older. (9)
• The tree beneath which he sat seemed not a day older! (8)
• And he was not so much older than me? (10)
• Put your faith in an older head, Evan. (10)
• Neither of the older men noticed his going. (9)
• Older architects came and absorbed his attention. (5)
• Do you know, I think I am older than your brother! (10)
• He had previously seemed to me a man so much older. (10)
• Pray, when you write, tell me if he is older than that. (10)
• It shot through her mind that he looked older, and very tired! (8)
• The older was named George Barclugh and the younger Roderick. (18)
• When I think of his name I see him ten times older than he is. (10)
• The fellow was seven years older than himself, no better looking! (8)
• James, too, had turned full towards his son; his face looked older. (8)
• They looked not a day older, suspended on wires above pampas-grass. (8)
• She is between thirty and thirty-two years old, but she looks older. (12)
• The twelve years past had made them older, as the years must in passing. (9)
• The civilization of the latter is dead; China, the older, is still living. (3)
• This man is about fifty-seven years of age, though he looks greatly older. (1)
• She had on a grey furry scarf, hiding her mouth, making her look much older. (8)
• She was apparently a widow, and they conjectured that she was older than he. (9)
• She will be disagreeable in infancy, and correct herself as she grows older. (4)
• Meantime he had grown older rapidly, so that they were much nearer together. (13)
• There were a few clothes, but very few, all older than those he usually wore. (8)
• You get older and older every minute with trying to refuse me. (10)
• You get older and older every minute with trying to refuse me. (22)
• He looked strained and worried, altogether older, but that might be the sunstroke. (8)
• I thought it my duty as a friend, and older than yourself, to say thus much to you. (4)
• He was of an older generation, and he could see life only in the light of competition. (13)
• If he does not learn this as he grows older in the service, he is a poor country editor. (16)
• To be lonely, and grow older and older, yearning for a soul to speak to! (8)
• But will you not comprehend that to the older man his miseries are multiplied by his years? (10)
• He was one of the older men of the club, much respected in the city, and perfectly fearless. (13)
• That was what had paralyzed the older man, though he could not subsequently trace the cause. (10)
• It would have been easier if it had been an older man, who might have had a daughter of her age. (9)
• And, by the way, Mrs. Baerens was my old music-mistress, and is, I think, one year older than I. (10)
• But as Clemens grew older he grew more merciful, not to the wrong, but to the men who were in it. (9)
• She grows to be court singer, and defeats an older rival, but ambition makes her careless of love. (3)
• The customary impression, as we get older, is that our friends are the maddest people in the world. (10)
• She seemed older, more severe in face than he had thought, than her photograph on his office desk said. (13)
• Their size remained equal until their seventh year, when the younger brother began to outstrip the older. (5)
• I confess to a strong lurch towards Calvinism (in some of its doctrines) that strengthens as I grow older. (14)
• Plutarch very unnecessarily drags Aristophanes into a comparison with him, to the confusion of the older poet. (10)
• They were the same in change to an eye grown older; they promised, as at the first, happiness for recklessness. (10)
• As she started for the door, she turned swiftly, threw her arms about the older woman, and kissed her vehemently. (13)
• When everything was sailing smoothly, the older one crawled into the cuddy and occupied the bunk opposite Barclugh. (18)
• The older generation of cooks were not attracted by labor-saving devices, but the point of view to-day is different. (17)
• And Colonel Martlett, representing the older Tory policy of: What the devil would happen to the landowners if they did? (8)
• Our accomplishments and our interests are in other fields, where we more than match the achievements of older civilizations. (16)
• I looked three or four years older than I was; but I experienced a terrible moment once when a fatherly Senator asked me my age. (9)
• It may be that as we grow older and our satisfaction with our own looks wanes, we become more fastidious as to the looks of others. (9)
• She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. (4)
• The circulation of this system was found to be superior to the older method as ordinarily installed, and very much cheaper to install. (17)
• The word for the performance of those duties is Toryism: a word with an older flavour than Conservatism, and Mr. Tuckham preferred it. (10)
• He seemed, to Rosamund Culling, twice older than he was, strangely adept, yet more strangely wise of worldly matters, and eloquent too. (10)
• Not that he took trouble to argue thus, as older heroes and self-convicting villains are in the habit of doing; to deduce a clear conscience. (10)
• That which weighs heavily in youth, and commits us to desperate action, will be a trifle under older eyes, to blunter senses, a more enlightened understanding. (10)
• As modern life became faster, looser, younger, Soames was becoming older, slower, tighter, more and more in thought and language like his father James before him. (8)
• Nevertheless, these last two movements show an expansion of the forms of the older writers, and a definiteness of character which insured their future development. (3)
• Besides the foregoing, Colonel Hamilton, the aide of General Washington, being in Philadelphia on business, and Roderick Barclugh completed the list of the older set. (18)
• However, the pictorial representations on tombs, monuments, temples and houses give valuable aid, enabling scholars to reconstruct the story of music among the older civilizations. (3)

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