oldness
Example Sentences
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“What was the relationship between personal fear of oldness and the ways in which oldness was structured in society?” she asks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
But I am realizing, now that I'm in the middle of oldness, there's something wrong with me: It doesn't go in; I just never let it get to me.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2019
Rather than presenting a guide to very old German breweries ranked by oldness, I am awarding each brewery 0 to 10 points in each of three adjudicative categories: age, style, and flavor.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014
And there was the house, Warings, the darkness and oldness of it, and the queer smell, he was frightened all the time he was here.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
