Example sentences for: year-olds

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

  • As some readers are aware, the teaching of English to schoolchildren in England has been undergoing great upheaval of late: the National Union of Teachers, the largest in the UK, recently voted overwhelmingly (nine out of ten) to boycott a compulsory English test for 14-year-olds by refusing to mark, administer, or invigilate [proctor] them.

  • Let us assume that our 1900 and 1990 12-year-olds are identical twins magically born 90 years apart.

  • Commentators are commending the administration's strategic acumen in proposing to expand child-care benefits and let 55-year-olds buy into Medicare.

  • Or, instead, we could just wait for a war and use 20-year-olds as guinea pigs in a poorly researched social experiment.

  • However, according to the Post , some documents refer to 12-year-olds.


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