Example sentences for: five-year-old

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

  • When Hideyoshi died in 1598, he hoped to have his five-year-old son continue his “dynasty,” initially under the tutelage of five regents.

  • Having outlived his children and grand­children, he was succeeded by his five-year-old great-grandson, Louis XV.

  • I'd bought a cone of solid sugar and a boxOf tea for the saint himself, a felt-tip penFor his son, the saint-elect, and bubblegumFor a confusion of small fry--the five-year-oldAunt, say, and her seven-year-old nephew.Nothing for the women, of course, the tattooed,One-eyed, moon-faced matron, or her daughterWhose husband had long ago run awayAfter killing their newborn by pouringA bottle of cheap cologne down its throat.This was, after all, our first meeting.

  • On March 22, a man screen-named "Larry" made a posting to an on-line alcoholics support group in which he described how three years ago he murdered his five-year-old daughter.

  • Already on page 2, he gets us into the mood by referring to a sample from a five-year-old girl sent for analysis at the start of the Lanarkshire


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