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Antonyms for old age


Grammar : Noun



Definition of old age

  • noun period of being elderly
Example sentences :
  • Old age and decay, bad enough in themselves, we intensify by our habits of mind.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • As for Reilly, we have been in harbour together, in our old age, and I may speak of him again.
  • Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • Sometimes even now, in my old age, I feel that I do not wholly comprehend it.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • I have lived to see two things in my old age that never did I expect to behold.
  • Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!
  • Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He died of old age, about a month ago, and sadly shall I miss him.'
  • Extract from : « Georgie's Present » by Miss Brightwell
  • When Tom Pembroke knew it best, its old age and decay had well set in.
  • Extract from : « The Inn at the Red Oak » by Latta Griswold
  • And therefore for this reason it is that old age dotes; and that it does so, it is beholding to me.
  • Extract from : « The Praise of Folly » by Desiderius Erasmus
  • Claret for youth, say I, sack for maturity, and strong waters in old age.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • In his old age he regretted that he had not completed his task.
  • Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

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