How to Use nonagenarian in a Sentence

nonagenarian

noun

• The nonagenarian, who remains at No. 3 with a net worth of $16.2 billion, is the second-oldest person on the list.
  — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024