old person
Example Sentences
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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
I think that if you can make a baby laugh and you can make an old person laugh, you’re funny.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
‘Well now,’ Thwaites went on, ‘when an old person like Mrs Pratchett suddenly gets a very big shock, I suppose you know what happens next?’
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
