How to Use nonagenarian in a Sentence

nonagenarian

noun
  • At a time in life when most nonagenarian's are taking it easy, Michanowicz is revving up.
    Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 29 May 2017
  • The nonagenarian remains at No. 3 with a net worth of $16.2 billion.
    Forbes Press Releases, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • After this long, strange awards trip, the Bagger feels like a nonagenarian, too.
    Cara Buckley, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • After decades in the spotlight, the wily nonagenarian is still center stage.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 8 June 2019
  • After the shoot, a friendship ensued between the nonagenarian and the 290-pound star athlete.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Both his parents are nonagenarians who have slowed down over the years but still appear in fairly fine fettle.
    Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2017
  • The title subject is Colette Marin Catherine, who, at the time of filming, was a nonagenarian.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Her home reflects the nonagenarian’s storied and proud life.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The film chronicles Alvarez’s life, her love of music and her path to pursuing a singing career as a nonagenarian.
    Sydney Page, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The nonagenarian, whom experts have deemed fit to stand trial, arrived in the courtroom in Hamburg in a wheelchair wearing a wide-brimmed hat and hiding his face with a red folder.
    Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Even the Arab world’s lone true democracy has elected a nonagenarian.
    The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • When regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance for a fresh beginning.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Since then the nonagenarian has styled himself the Patriarch of Kiev, a title that few people outside Ukraine recognise.
    Erasmus, The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Well into her 90s, Ms. Hoffman was known to tootle around in a pink Cadillac driven by a fellow nonagenarian.
    Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The sprightly nonagenarian was replacing a rotting, 16-foot plank on his back deck, and cutting it up into pieces with a chainsaw before installing a new plank.
    Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
  • The nonagenarian was recovering from a fall – taken while jazz dancing – but was in good spirits.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The nonagenarian’s sons Licurtis Reels and Melvin Davis had homes on that waterfront parcel.
    Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • For a nonagenarian, a robot that offers brain-teasing games to help keep her mind sharp could become an ideal companion.
    Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The premise, simply enough, is to talk to fellow nonagenarians and a few centenarians (Kirk Douglas among them), asking what keeps them going and seeking clues to their longevity.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 June 2017
  • The study attributed that to the strong-willed nature of those nonagenarians, who spoke to researchers about their beliefs, history of migration, family and country.
    Josh Magness, miamiherald, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Pelosi said critics of octogenarians like herself and Biden and nonagenarians like Feinstein need to appreciate that the test is in the ability to do the job, not one’s age.
    Amy B Wang, Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There’s the mayor, a sharp nonagenarian who has been in office since the Eisenhower administration.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
  • This year’s letter was no different, as the nonagenarian began the 11-page brief with a brief monologue on changing attitudes about saving and generational wealth.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The visibly emotional nonagenarian was shaken by the Overview Effect, the experience of seeing our tiny planet in the context of a vast universe.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The world's oldest living aquarium fish is a nonagenarian.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Moreover, the soft-spoken, self-effacing nonagenarian is still at it, determined to capture the whimsy of nature on canvas, whatever the weather.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Is there a living nonagenarian with a wider pop-cultural sneakerprint than Nelson?
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Aside from relief that he was pulled unscathed from such a mangled vehicle, there was widespread shock that the nonagenarian was still driving himself – and sometimes without security.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Normally, a celebration lunch would have been offered to the nonagenarians.
    cleveland, 3 May 2020
  • The nonagenarian is Malaysia’s most experienced statesman and a dangerous foe.
    The Economist, 23 May 2020

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