old person

Example Sentences

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And he always hands it to his grandpa or like the old person in the village.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024

And yet they just don't have that thing that the old person has, right?

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2024

Until that moment I saw myself as coping well with my Parkinson's and definitely not as an old person.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2023

This presumes that the only thing that is different between a young person and an old person is their age when, in fact, that’s not quite true.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2023

The bathroom smelled like an old person, and some of the tiles that were supposed to be on the wall were on the floor.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer