age
Example Sentences
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Tom has reached an age when he can no longer get around the house without an accompaniment of creaks and groans and thuds.
And he came of age in the long shadow of modern art’s towering and, he felt, likely terminal -isms.
By the accession of Leopold II in 1790, an empire based on a “feudal hierarchy of status” found itself in the age of Romantic nationalism, democracy and “enlightened ridicule.”
He survived just long enough to write and publish “Alone in Berlin” before dying in 1947 at the age of 53.
From Los Angeles Times
I have two grandnieces, ages 5 and 10.
From MarketWatch
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