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
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
Personally, I agree, and I also think our cultural terror of growing old must be pretty extreme when actual children are feeling it.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2024
Tally tried to imagine her growing old, wrinkled, gradually ruined, all without ever having been truly beautiful.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
