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Example sentences for: elders

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

In my day, children were taught respect for their elders, and one of the methods used was form of address.
Both also have had privileged political careers, floating into the Senate on celebrity or lineage, and both seem better suited to being selected by boards of admiring elders than to the grungy business of running for office.
The atmosphere is soul-deadening, the young are armed and bored, their elders are armed and feeble, and everyone is in a constant state of sexual arousal.
Nasario Garcia has published several collections depicting the way of life of the elders of the Rio Puerco Valley, and Rudolfo Anaya has written several children’s books that bring forth the folklore of the region.
And younger generations are vastly more tolerant than their elders, suggesting these numbers will climb.