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Example Sentences

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Children and elders, on foot or riding donkeys or being pulled along on carts, all look ahead; none look back.

From Literature

Like Xi, Zhang, a member of the party’s elite Politburo, is one of China’s “princelings,” as the descendants of revolutionary elders and high-ranking party officials are known.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both men are “princelings,” as the descendants of revolutionary elders and high-ranking party officials are known.

From The Wall Street Journal

They are asserting ownership of their country, with young people raised under repression standing beside elders who remember freedom.

From Salon

But the Young 40 memes also represent Korean youth's growing scepticism of this almost forced reverence for elders.

From BBC