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:

  • I call on lawyers everywhere to share in the highest aspirations of our profession, and to help realize our unwavering, unyielding commitment to the 200-year-old promise of equal justice under law for everyone.

  • In March, he dismissed Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and replaced him with a 35-year-old political neophyte, Sergei Kiriyenko.

  • His 80-year-old analyst rarely bothered to listen to his patient's problems.

  • 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.

  • Leaders of the Roman Jewish community, the largest and oldest in the country, formally dissociated themselves from the president of "the Italian Israelitic Communities," Tullia Zevi, who had called for clemency saying that "nobody wants an 80-year-old to end his days in prison."


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