How to Use senior citizen in a Sentence

senior citizen

noun
  • Senior citizens qualify for a discount at the movie theater.
  • The plot centers on a three senior citizens who team up to pull off a heist.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But the senior citizen feared her nephew would steal from her.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • At 22, Wright is a Toreros senior citizen, and an old soul.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The senior citizens slowly rose to their feet as the band began to play.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Among the senior citizen vote, Trump maintains a slight lead with 51%, to Biden’s 47%.
    Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • For the first booster shot, just 68 percent of the senior citizen group got them.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 13 June 2022
  • So, there's a lot of senior citizen voters who just didn't do it.
    ABC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Is this program going to change views about love and the senior citizen?
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The weight of the blow caused the senior citizen to fall backward into nearby shrubs, where the assailant on video continued to strike and kick the man.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • However, because Buscemi is 66, he is seen as a senior citizen in the eyes of the law.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 May 2024
  • So, the governor wants to help senior citizens in our state.
    Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 15 Dec. 2019
  • Golf carts have found a legion of new fans among senior citizens in recent years.
    al, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The Peach State is also very tax-friendly to its senior citizens.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Should any senior citizen fear losing their home over cookies or a sausage link or a grab of the wrist that may or may not have happened?
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Yep, that’s the two senior citizens running for to be the most powerful person on Earth.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 July 2024
  • Meals for senior citizens are provided both at the center and through the Meals on Wheels program.
    Shelley Smith - Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 June 2024
  • Tickets are $16 for adults and $12 for students and senior citizens at the door, starting one hour before show time.
    courant.com, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Enhance the quality of life for Keller senior citizens aged 55 and up.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The agency’s booking of senior citizens also fell during the same time period — from a dozen per week to just two in the last two weeks of March.
    Kenny Jacoby, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2020
  • About 1,500 senior citizens held a protest in the state capital, Gauhati, on Monday.
    Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019
  • The class, consisting mostly of senior citizens, was forced to shut down.
    Fox News, 15 May 2020
  • It had been argued that senior citizens should pick up more of the tab for their Medicare Part B coverage.
    Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
  • While talking to the senior citizen, the officer smelled booze.
    John Benson, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Tickets are $6 for adults and $4 for students and senior citizen.
    cleveland, 23 Dec. 2019
  • There, on each corner, was a senior citizen holding and twirling signs like teens do to promote a pizza joint.
    Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Mendez, who lives with a senior citizen who has diabetes and heart disease, brought her own gloves.
    Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 29 June 2020
  • And my bully, let’s call her Carol, is a senior citizen.
    Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • Near Jamaica Avenue, the bus will stop at Cub Foods and senior citizen centers.
    Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2019
  • California’s fastest-growing age group is people over 65, which means more senior citizens in the state are thinking about where to spend their retirement years.
    Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024

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