growing old
Example Sentences
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A lot of people dream about buying land with friends, building homes, and growing old together.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025
Analysts also believe Russia and North Korea use different operating systems, with the latter’s being low-quality and growing old.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2024
His father, divorced, is now growing old in Moscow, estranged from Lockshin and his other children.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
As to whether she can imagine growing old with someone else in that picture, notwithstanding her current happiness, those old ghosts breed skepticism.
From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024
His father wasn’t growing old: he had reached some kind of nadir ten or twelve years ago and now he was growing backward, aiming toward middle age, maybe youth.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
