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Example sentences for: codger

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

New York City is a highly complex, weirdly evolved organism--kind of like a pickled old codger living on gin and cigarettes: He should have started behaving more sensibly a long time ago, but forcing him to suddenly do it now would be an act of cruelty, more likely to kill him than to make him healthier.
A. "A bare-assed codger was killed near Bangkok this morning when his motorcycle collided with a low-flying game bird that police say was 'hurled in his path by a vengeful god.
Yes, I'd rather watch Newman than, say, Wilford Brimley, but the real tragedy here is reducing Newman to hovering on the periphery and delivering old codger lines such as "Young lady, if I were 150 years younger ..."
Inside I met an old codger named Clifford Beare, who had recently retired from the Jeff Davis County sheriff's department.
With an insouciant and supercilious tone, he employed descriptors such as "trailer-trash," "redneck," "codger," "nut," "fringe," and the rest of that all-too-familiar list.