Words similar to elder

Example sentences for: elder

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

When Garry Trudeau questioned [the elder Bush's] manhood, I didn't like it.
And cilium , which meant upper eyelid to Pliny the Elder, acquired in later centuries the senses of eyebrow, eyelid, and eyelash.
She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.
There are also words representative of other areas of Aboriginal life, such as boylya cleverman or wise elder, gnamma waterhole, kylie boomerang, miamia dwelling, monaych , originally the name of a cockatoo and by transference a police officer, nyoongar Aboriginal person, wagyl , the mythical rainbow serpent, wilgie , a red ochre used to paint the body on ceremonial occasions, and wongi , a word for an Aboriginal person, originally used around Kalgoorlie.
Today, the elder statesman advises Cambodia's leaders to seek rapprochement with the West.