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Example sentences for: elder

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

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.
When the university proposed a temporary solution--hiring UCLA's Saul Friedlander, a distinguished elder statesman in the field--Lipper said no.
Since 1990, she has worked in the Administrative Law Unit and Resource Development, and directed the Elder Law Project, serving the northern half of the state.
When Garry Trudeau questioned [the elder Bush's] manhood, I didn't like it.
She held a similar post a few years ago in the school's Elder Law Clinic.