Example sentences for: year-old

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

  • Suppose you compared the earnings of men and women who are 35-year-old lawyers, all childless, and all Law Review graduates of Harvard Law School, and found that the men's earnings are higher than the women's.

  • Last week, a 70-year-old Palestinian real-estate dealer was murdered after he violated a new edict by the Palestinian Authority making the sale of Arab-owned land to Jews a capital crime.

  • But she's heavy-spirited, and it isn't long before she runs out of invention and starts pulling goofy faces--like the one where she sucks a drink through a straw and rolls her eyes skyward like a distracted 5-year-old.

  • Instead of indulgence, 40-year-old fashion seems to need taming.

  • B ut didn't Starr threaten to take away Steele's adopted 9-year-old son?


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