Use older in a sentence
Sentences starting with older
- Older folk than you have wondered at the same thing before now. [12]
- Older people came to Asquith for simplicity and rest, and the younger ones were brought there for these things. [9]
- Older architects came and absorbed his attention. [10]
- Older and dearer. [5]
Sentences ending with older
- But I was young and a fool; you were older. [11]
- They looked many years older. [11]
- He looks ten years older. [11]
- I was twenty-one years of age, though one would have called me older. [9]
- Look at these woodcuts,--the first anatomical pictures ever printed, Doctor, unless these others of Jacobus Berengarius are older! [6]
- Among the students who followed his instructions were two Englishmen: one of them, John Locke, afterwards author of an "Essay on the Human Understanding," three years younger than his teacher; the other, Thomas Sydenham, five years older. [3]
- There were times when I was careless--careless in my dress when I got older. [5]
- He remembers it when he gets older. [11]
- The drenching we were getting was misery enough, but a deeper misery still was the reflection that the halter might end us before we were a day older. [5]
- The old gentleman was sixty-three years of age when he addressed it to his friend T. Pomponius Atticus, Eq., a person of distinction, some two or three years older. [6]
Short sentences using older
- He was older than I. [9]
- I've got considerable older. [9]
- And we're the older firm. [11]
Sentences containing older two or more times
- Was it worth while living, only to grow older and older, and, coming, heavy with sleep, to the Homestead of the Ages, enter a door that only opened inwards, and be swallowed up in the twilight? [11]
- Benares is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together. [5]
- It is older than Hippocrates, older than Chiron the Centaur. [3]
- You must choose between your trade and the claims of name and blood, older than the English navy, older than Norman England. [11]
More example sentences with the word older in them
- Indeed, an audacious young praetorian had put out his hand to pull away her veil, but an older officer stopped him. [10]
- For instance, do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men? [7]
- And listen-- before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here. [11]
- Let me tell you a story, adapted to young persons, but which won't hurt older ones. [6]
- He was young, yes; but he would never be any older than this, could never love again like this. [9]
- He looked ten years older, and she felt with him the keen suffering which every step must cause. [10]
- He was twenty years older than O'Ryan, and he had studied his friend as a pious monk his missal. [11]
- He looked many years older than he really was, but much study and meditation and fasting and prayer, with the arid life he had led as hermit and beggar, could account for that. [5]
- He was twenty years older than Abby, and made his money in leather. [9]
- She seemed five years older in the minute. [11]
- Hence the older works come in time to have only an antiquarian interest. [4]
- All this he withheld from the older men and merely briefly described the splendid banquet which Caesarion, pallid and listless as ever, had directed, and Antyllus especially had enlivened with the most reckless mirth. [10]
- Katterle had gone with Eva to the chamber, whither the older sister followed them. [10]
- She smiled as, with an access of tenderness, in spite of his experience and power she suddenly felt years older than Ditmar. [9]
- They know whether with all their leisure they get placidity of mind and the real rest which the older nations have learned to enjoy. [4]
- Emerson's older brother William was teaching in Boston, and Ralph Waldo, after graduating, joined him in that occupation. [6]
- Herr Ortlieb's invalid wife could not spare Els, her older daughter and faithful nurse, so he required Eva's obedience, and compelled her to give up her opposition to attending the festival; but she dreaded the vain, worldly gaiety--nay, actually felt a horror of it. [10]
- Being a woman, whose ways are unaccountable, the older man took no notice of her. [9]
- The first son, who was but a year older, and was as dark as he was fair, had inherited--had seized--all his father's wealth. [11]
- The older men, who thought it undignified to amuse themselves with such nonsense, continued to lie at the opposite side of the fire, but one would occasionally raise himself on an elbow and glance at Morel with a smile. [2]
- Their older friends, who had turned their backs on the couple and were talking busily by a window, paid no heed to them, and the blissful conviction of being loved as ardently as she loved flooded her whole being. [10]
- The older brother, who died as Grand Duke, continued his friendship for me while sovereign of his country. [10]
- The Alexandrian fellow-artists who belonged to his party would gratefully welcome this special work; for what grew out of it would have nothing in common with the fascination of superhuman beauty, by which the older artists ensnared the hearts and minds of the multitude. [10]
- The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
- He seemed older when he looked at Chiltern again, and in his face commiseration and indignation were oddly intermingled. [9]
- I no longer wear the white cockade, for I am older now. [9]
- I think, as we grow older, we decrease as individuals, and as if in an immense audience who hear stirring music, none essays to offer a new stave, but we only join emphatically in the chorus. [6]
- The use of water-dressings in surgery completed the series of reforms by which was abolished the "coarse and cruel practice" of the older surgeons, who with their dressings and acrid balsams, their tents and leaden tubes, "absolutely delayed the cure. [3]
- Almeric Tarboe it was--the older brother of Luke Tarboe at John Grier's. [11]
- Most like it was that love for a cause, which was more to be encouraged by her than any woman's love for a man, which as she grew older inspired her with aversion, as talk of marriage brought cynical allusions to her lips. [11]
- His brother Orion was ten years older, but he had not the gift of success. [5]
- Cynthia (she too was older than John) sat on Sunday in the singers' seat; her voice, which was going to be a contralto, had a wonderful pathos in it for him, and he heard it with a heartache. [4]
- I thought he was more diffuse and more enthusiastic in his descriptions than he had been with the older members of the party. [6]
- Since New Orleans was in a swamp, the older houses for the most part were lifted some seven feet above the ground, and many of these houses had wide galleries on the street side. [9]
- You must not wait to be brought forward by the older men. [7]
- These thoughts remain very much the same from day to day, from week to week; and as we grow older, from month to month, and from year to year. [6]
- The older Herr Van der Does clapped Peter on the shoulder and then struck the palm of his hand with his fist, as if to say: "I won't question that! [10]
- I should insist upon your going to my house, if you were not claimed by your older friend Gen. Boswell. [5]
- The older labour unions were accused by the strikers of playing the employers' game, and thus grew to be hated even more than the "capitalists. [9]
- The struggle began under the direction of the older pupils, and the grip on which I had relied did not fail. [10]
- Whether this occurred unconsciously to you in an hour of mental ecstasy, or whether you felt that you still lacked the means to represent the divine, and therefore returned to the older methods, I do not venture to decide. [10]
- John Wagner is two years older than the Rhode Island veteran, and yet has never tasted a drop of liquor in his life--unless-unless you count whisky. [5]
- He was about two years older than his sister; that is, seventeen. [11]
- He's only about twelve years older than my son, but, like my son, there's no holding him, there's no control of him that's any good. [11]
- A man grows twelve and a woman thirty-six months older every year. [10]
- The older felt transported to the past, the younger seemed to have naught save a present rich in blessing and a future green with hope. [10]
- When you went to the wrestling school in Alexandria, Eumedes was scarcely eight years older than you, and I remember how he preferred you to the others. [10]
- He listened unmoved to the courtier, who, after the usual formal greetings, took upon himself to overwhelm the older man with the bitterest accusations and reproaches. [10]
- I want you to maintain your dignity always with such persons, and I beg you not to go to the study of this clergyman, unless some older friend goes with you on every occasion, and sits through the visit. [6]
- Instead of confiding to him my aspirations, vague though they were, I became more and more secretive as I grew older. [9]
- You would try to hide it; but I would see you growing older hourly before my eyes. [11]
- She stole, muffled, to her mistress's gallant, to bring a message from the older beautiful E, with whom this godly knight was surprised last night. [10]
- His face seemed to have grown older by years on the moment. [11]
- Science has undertaken to fathom it, and the results which it gains with measures and numbers is of a different value and more lasting than that which the idle sport of the intellects of the older philosophers obtained. [10]
- Mr. Allen's tendency to extravagance had been noticed by the members of the Miles Standish Company, and some of the older directors had on occasions remonstrated with him. [9]
- He had little to begin with, but he was young like you--indeed, a little older than you--when he first came. [11]
- But yet at times he was moved by a strange pity, for Olivier Delagarde was, in truth, far older than his years: a thin, shuffling, pallid invalid, with a face of mingled sanctity and viciousness. [11]
- He had not time to protest, for we heard footsteps in the hall, and Mademoiselle entered, leading an older lady by the hand. [9]
- He was scarcely three years older than herself; he was eighteen--but in spite of his youth and simplicity he was not unmanly; and there was something in him--something that compelled her to be constantly thinking of him and asking herself what that something was. [10]
- One would have thought, by that smile, that the son was the older and wiser of the two. [9]
- It was as though he was going through the older tragedy all over again. [11]
- V Many of those picturesque features of the older England, that stir us by their beauty and by the sense of stability and permanence they convey, will no doubt disappear or be transformed. [9]
- I have said this without claiming any special growth in humanity for myself, though I do hope I grow tenderer in my feelings as I grow older. [6]
- At any rate, this was not a time in which professional habits could keep down certain instincts of older date than these. [6]
- But I don't think Mr. Bentley has grown a bit older. [9]
- Young George was there, Mr. Hutchins's nephew, who was daily becoming more and more of a factor in the management of the mills, and had built the house of yellow brick that stood out so incongruously among the older Hutchinses' mansions, and marked a transition. [9]
- And as for the wildness, if the heart of him's right, why that's easy out of him whin he's older. [11]
- He was much the same as I had known him, only grown older and his reputation now increased to vastness. [9]
- The family were the same age that they were when I had left them five minutes before, but I was a day older now than I was then. [5]
- In one sense, the real sense to every person, it is no older than the lives lived in it at any given time. [4]
- The loving-cup, and the peculiar ceremonies observed in drinking from it, are older than English history. [5]
- The face of the older man, however, had another look. [11]
- Holding his breath, the older man watched every movement, and his heart began to throb anxiously. [10]
- More and more the older and younger nations are getting to be proud and really fond of each other. [6]
- Behind Arsinoe, in the larger circular rows, sat the parents and husbands of the performers, among whom Keraunus, in his saffron robe, had taken a place, besides a considerable number of sight-loving matrons and older citizens who had accepted Plutarch's invitation. [10]
- Gotthard von Ramsweg, the Lady Wendula's older brother, a valiant knight, went to his sister's home after her husband's death to manage the estate and instruct his nephew in all the exercises of knighthood. [10]
- She had, for the first time, the curious feeling of being years older than he, yet this did not detract from a new-born admiration. [9]
- Study recommenced on the first of October, and during the leisure days before that time the village church festival was celebrated under the village linden, with plenty of cakes, and a dance of the peasants, in which we older ones took part. [10]
- Those who remember the Dartmouth College of that day cannot help smiling at the thought of the contrast in the way of thinking between the speaker and the larger part, or at least the older part, of his audience. [6]
- And look at the "Morning GooGoo" (this was his nickname for one of the older dailies), it couldn't pay its paper bills if it hadn't such a small circulation. [4]
- Mr. Bronte thought that it looked older than Charlotte did, and that her features had not been flattered; but he acknowledged that the expression was wonderfully good and life-like. [14]
- I could see that in the year she had grown older, yet her beauty seemed enhanced by that and by the trouble she had endured. [11]
- Who will wonder that Barbara had a headache, or that Barbara's mother was disposed to be cross, or that she slightly underrated Astley's, and thought the clown was older than they had taken him to be last night? [12]
- A year older than you, I believe. [9]
- Boyne was older than you, and perhaps you cut him out with a woman. [11]
- Twenty years older than the twins, and a companion-in-arms of their father, he had managed their rapid promotion. [10]
- Nothing is older than the story of young love. [6]
- One man, older than the others present, suddenly pushed forward with a scared and angry look and wanted to seize hold of Dolokhov's shirt. [2]
- She was older than the Cynthia he had known, and yet she did not seem so. [9]
- Leonhard was older than I, and when he graduated with honor, I was still very weak in the pandects. [10]
- You are older than I am, of course, and much graver and wiser. [10]
- She was younger than any woman present, but she seemed older. [11]
- Perhaps Mandeville can tell us whether this clothes panic prevails in the older societies. [4]
- A change has taken place even in the older men, like Mr. Jenney and Mr. Redbrook, who simply did not think about these questions ten years ago. [9]
- I had known such a woman, older, but with the same characteristics, the same struggles, temptations, and suffering the same restriction of her life and movements by the prejudice in her veins--the prejudice of racial predilection. [11]
- The gigantic tree, struck with a sort of leprosy, like all its species, appears much older, and of course has its tradition. [4]
- The same old stateliness, the same cleanliness, the same stillness reigned there, and inside there was the same furniture, the same walls, sounds, and smell, and the same timid faces, only somewhat older. [2]
- The older novels sprang from the poetry of the Middle Ages; their themes were knightly adventure, their personages were the nobility; the common people did not figure in them. [4]
- Will a man speak so to one older than himself, save in mockery? [11]
- And all the sorceress said tended to confirm the young woman's confidence in her magic art; she described Orion as exactly as though she saw him indeed in the surface of the ink, and said he was travelling with an older man. [10]
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