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Example sentences for: elder

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Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show ) as Hopkins' milksop son-in-law and Marcia Gay Harden as his party planning, perpetually wilting elder daughter.
Her beloved father, Elliott Roosevelt, is a kind-hearted drunk who dies at 34, hounded to the grave by a sadistic and mentally warped elder brother, who (perhaps smarting at having been outshone by Elliott in his youth) slanders him in public, fleeces him out of his money, turns his family against him, and seeks to get him institutionalized.
They could all get up, do the TelePrompTer fandango, and say "God bless" in one fluid motion (in Bush the elder's case, too fluid).
The name of the dance ceremony corroboree , probably the most immediately observable characteristic of peoples regarded as savages, which had both a religious and an informal social form, was readily adopted, as was koradji a wise elder or, as he was often described, a witch doctor.
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, architect of many of the town’s palazzi, built his masterpiece, the 16th-century church of San Biagio, southwest of town, a gem of High Renaissance architecture hidden at the end of a cypress-lined road with views of the Chiana valley.