Example sentences for: age-old

How can you use “age-old” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In calling in the CIA to help on Flight 800, the FBI was making a peace overture in a bitter, age-old rivalry.

  • This raised ethical questions about whether the girls should be restored to their respective biological parents, which raised the age-old question whether custody should be determined by the rights of biological parents or the children's need for stability.

  • When he became speaker, Gingrich tossed out the age-old House rules.

  • It's the age-old conflict between ideologues and accomodationists.

  • Certainly it is no passing fad, dependent on vogue words, for despite its infancy it employs such age-old terms as alas, albeit, perforce , and withal . Nor it can be taxed with pedantry, demonstrably, for on occasion it makes use of colloquial expressions like for starters, likewise, for sure , and no doubt about it . Above all, though some people might think otherwise, it definitely does not involve clichés.


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