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:

  • The LAT and NYT report that yesterday a nephew of Robert F. Kennedy, Michael Skakel, was charged with a 25-year-old Connecticut beating and stabbing murder of a 15-year-old girl.

  • Another farm worker, 22-year-old Marcelina Lopez, was five months pregnant during the reported Olathe spraying incident on June 29.

  • Today once again everything in the paper seems like an artifact from my boyhood: Victor Borge getting the Kennedy Center national-cultural-treasure award (I know it's churlish to begrudge a 90-year-old man his prize ... but Victor Borge?), the putative excitement over IMAX movies (it's Cinerama circa 1959 all over again), ur-suburboid Procter & Gamble products in the news (Cheer, Crest, Ivory, Tide, Jif), Keith Richards and Eric Clapton and Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde performing en masse on tour.

  • Talk-show guests these days often have had formal training in how to avoid answering questions, and every 3-year-old knows how to deliver a prepackaged sound bite.

  • Both the script and 16-year-old actress Natalie Portman ( Everyone Says I Love You ) are said to render Anne Frank less of a caricature than before.


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