Example sentences for: nonagenarian

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

  • Clinton told the famous story of Roosevelt, on first being elected president in 1932, visiting the nonagenarian Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, prompting Holmes to observe that while Roosevelt didn't have a first-class mind, he had a first-class temperament.

  • ' Moreover, some of the older students addressed by the priest in the movie are past childhood, though in priestly parlance anyone, even a nonagenarian, may be called a child.

  • An April 1996 article in The Independent of London (not available online) says that yet another nonagenarian, "a bricklayer in his nineties," became a father in 1995, but it doesn't supply any details, so it's impossible to know whether he broke Colley's record.


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