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Example sentences for: elder

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Incidentally, tribal elder Laughing Woman, although laughing, is in no way associated with whack-o-matic fun.
Bunt is named for an elder brother who died in infancy, and both Betty and Bunt seem to feel that he is only a stand-in for his predecessor.
When the university proposed a temporary solution--hiring UCLA's Saul Friedlander, a distinguished elder statesman in the field--Lipper said no.
Among the findings: The voters approve of George W.'s equivocations on the cocaine question--largely because they resent the perceived arrogance of the media; they cannot agree what the correct GOP stance on abortion and gun control should be; and they now hate Newt Gingrich and love Bush the Elder, whom they regret abandoning in '92.
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.