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age-old
adjective as in very old
Example Sentences
I meant the age-old motivator, fear—stoking fear in their base of what a Republican Senate would look like.
It promises to be a parsimonious solution to the age-old problem of preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Finally, some solid facts in the age-old debate: Does marriage make you live longer or does it just seem longer?
It is called “being offended,” and it is an age-old Russian national pastime, both on an individual level and more broadly.
You, and millions like you, may have recently discovered meditation, an age-old practice dating back to the 1st millenium BCE.
It was in the stifling of all the youth and ambition of my nature by the baleful weight of her age-old weariness of intellect.
Meanwhile, journeying through this age-old land, a snatch of verse goes running through my head.
A proud people, yet a people who would turn and run without thought, in a panic of age-old fear.
It was the age-old tragic comedy of a false friend's treachery and a woman's weakness; a duel, and the wrong man slain.
"It's the age-old story," he went on, again sweeping the lock of hair from before his flashing glance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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