How to Use superannuated in a Sentence

superannuated

adjective

• Etched onto it is a circle of faces of superannuated ÖVP grandees.
  — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2017
• Breasts come in for their share of drollery as well in a play that sets up two superannuated choruses, one droopily male, the other saggingly female.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021
• Our health care, housing, recreation and retirement institutions are not set up to manage the needs of the superannuated.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• The remaking of the High Line turned a chunk of superannuated freight infrastructure into a verdant catwalk.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Jan. 2021
• The Irish presidency was little more than heaven’s vestibule for superannuated politicians, but Robinson put new fire in the office.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
• Everest has become an antidote to mid-life crises — a quotidian item on the bucket lists of superannuated dentists and CFOs.
  — Time, 3 Apr. 2018
• Mascherano had given the ball away repeatedly in the first half, and a vital presence for Argentina over the years who increasingly looks superannuated.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 26 June 2018
• Predominantly white, male and English, the cabbies present a superannuated vision of Britain, next to the ethnically diverse immigrants and other strivers who get behind the wheel and slap an Uber decal on their window.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
• Instead, the Italians have learned that every building, every structure, is a palimpsest, and that their lives within it, superannuated or brief, contribute another layer to its long narrative.
  — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• And who knew about the existence, at least in this droll fiction, of an animal shelter for retired police dogs where the superannuated sniffers’ specific talents are listed for potential owners?
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 22 July 2021
• Spores have often been suggested as a vehicle for superannuated bacteria.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
• Not just the question of superannuated friendships, but also past-prime careers, aging bodies, senior finances and calcifying personality traits are all fairly coldly examined here.
  — Marion Winik, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
• No superannuated Skywalker, marooned on his little island rock.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024