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
But these individuals have grown old and huge and worth celebrating, even if they happen to be unassuming and unexpected, situated as they are on quiet residential streets.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2024
Without attribution, the article reported, “One settler says men have grown old and died of old age waiting for the ‘balance’ on the ‘Cash-Up’ trade.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2022
“Now that I’ve grown old, I realize that for most of us it is not enough to have achieved personal success,” Maugham said.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2020
The genie spent his years in the lamp longing for her and wondering whether she’d married someone else, whether she’d grown old, whether she’d died.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
