grown old
Example Sentences
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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
Sarachan, his top assistant with the Galaxy and the national team, replaced him, inheriting a roster that had grown old and dysfunctional.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2021
"We had fun while it lasted... I just wish I had him longer so we could have grown old together."
From BBC • Aug. 13, 2021
“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
Already my mother would admit to foreseeing herself in her own mother, a woman grown old, bald and bowlegged, after a hard lifetime of working.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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