grown old
Example Sentences
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The reason this team has grown old together is because it has been successful together.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025
Ratkovich renovated some of the city’s best-known architectural gems that had fallen on hard times in an era when ever-evolving L.A. wasn’t much interested in preserving buildings that had grown old and were considered obsolete.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023
“It’s babies and grown old men out here,” said Dioren Hallums, 34, on a blazing afternoon earlier in the summer.
From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2022
Suddenly, a team that had grown old during a streak of six straight AFC West titles is among the youngest in the league.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 30, 2022
The young men, afterward, hunted wild goats with him, and hare, and deer, but he had grown old in his master’s absence.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
