How to Use ager in a Sentence

ager

noun
  • That doesn’t mean all of your favorite anti-agers are fair game though.
    Danielle Blundell, Women's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
  • As a teen-ager in Calcutta, Anand, who is forty-four, dreamed of being a drummer like Dave Grohl.
    Sheila Yasmin Marikar, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • Those years my dad was a bit of a dad-ager, carting around our gear, setting up my drum kit, running our sound system and the like.
    Liza Lentini, SPIN, 12 July 2022
  • And by the time Welsch was a teen-ager Lake Michigan featured a recreational and a charter fishery for trout and salmon.
    Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2022
  • And the kaputa kaak chant quickly became the vehicle of the people’s ager.
    Quartz, 4 May 2022
  • Like Alejandro, Zavala left Ignacio Ramirez as a teen-ager.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2022
  • She was born to a British mother in Blackpool and as teen-ager joined her father in Milan without having a clue as to what her dad did for a living.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Those who knew Ben-Gvir as a teen-ager recall an intelligent, charismatic boy with an easy smile.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The super-ager offered a glimpse into how she’s achieved health, wellness and athletic longevity.
    Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • In the film, Amber—who is played by an actual teen-ager, discovered on Instagram—does obscene things to a cream doughnut.
    Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Naomi is a stand-out scholar and a popular teen-ager who runs a website devoted to Superman.
    oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Searching for that one miracle anti-ager can lead you down a rabbit hole of all-too-expensive skincare products.
    Zarah Kavarana, PEOPLE.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • In the restaurant’s test runs before opening, Collins saw how involving diners in the meal—like how people can go up to the dry ager and pick their cut with the chefs—got people moving around and created an energy in the room.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Lee added some new technology, like sous vide gadgets, and hoped to incorporate more, like a dry ager solely reserved for fish, but the building’s limitations prohibited his ambitions.
    Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Everything inside was urbs, city space consecrated by priests who interpreted the will of the gods; everything outside was ager — unhallowed open territory.
    David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • However, Rogalski also points out that physical health is not necessarily required to be a super ager.
    Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • Rapid agers experience a faster rate of functional deterioration relative to their chronological age.
    Aditi Gurkar, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023

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