How to Use old age in a Sentence

old age

noun

• By the time life was brought to perfection, old age had arrived.
  — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• He is played in old age by Will Lyman, who does not appear until very late in the play.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• Winter is coming, and so is adulthood, and so is old age.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 25 Mar. 2024
• After a lifetime spent on the sandy shores, Daisy died of old age on October 15.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2023
• Aging research doesn’t tend to be about finding the one cure that fixes all that may ail you in old age.
  — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
• As 86-year-olds tell it, old age can be lonely, amazing, a time of letting go, a time of fighting to hang on.
  — Chico Harlan, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Many of her clients were wealthy noblemen and statesmen who had promised to support her in her old age.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• With all the aches and pains that attend old age, how many Americans would really want to live to 100?
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2024
• Some have children or grandchildren to help provide for them in their old age.
  — Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• Only four of their girls made it past childhood, and only one into old age.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 14 Jan. 2024
• That was especially true with those scenes in which Michael played my father in his old age.
  — Georgette Jones, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
• The musical follows the duo from different worlds through their youth to their old age across a lifetime of love and in the face of forces that threaten it.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Aug. 2023
• But Hendricks still devoted much of his time to caring for their parents in their old age.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• In exchange, lawmakers want to make sure that people use the money for their own old age and not for other things.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 1 June 2024
• After her father, Fritz, died about a decade ago, his brother lived there alone until old age forced him out.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
• In her old age, and her more solitary life, my grandmother has slipped more and more into Shanghainese.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• For many transgender seniors, it’s brought new fears to their plans for retirement and old age.
  — Andrew Demillo, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2023
• During one of those jumps, a woman was purposefully left out of her bobble and dies of old age.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 27 July 2023
• For better or worse, Raquel Welch was the rare star who maintained her bombshell status, well into her old age.
  — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Camera and optical implants could improve our vision and make the decline of eyesight in old age a thing of the past.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• For some trans elders, including Smith's friend Pearl Love, the camaraderie in old age has been a lifeline.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 June 2024
• The seven plagues of California’s piers are fire, ocean storms, fire, old age, civic budgets, ship worms called teredos, and fire.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• But advances in hygiene and medicine have rendered both longevity and cancer in old age common.
  — David J. Waters, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• This may be good news for older workers who are trying to stave off poverty in old age by continuing to work.
  — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Chances of reaching old age did not increase further with more exercise.
  — Steven Reinberg, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2019
• Funds raised benefit entertainers across the U.K. who need help and assistance in old age, poor health or hard times.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 4 Dec. 2023
• Many artists—Titian and de Kooning alike—have found a second childhood in old age; no other painter ever became younger in his sixties.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Kirkland leads a group at the Mayo Clinic that showed mice without senescent cells live healthier into old age.
  — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
• After all, even medical researchers aren’t sure why some people make it to old age with their memory and thinking intact, while others don’t.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 8 Aug. 2024
• There are substantial life changes during emerging adulthood and old age that account for higher levels of loneliness.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024