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Example sentences for "age and"

  • It was hard to forgive a preacher who reproached the feminine tendency to conceal by cosmetics and dress one's age and ugliness.

  • As the maidens increased in age and improved in beauty, they were trained by their mother for a theatrical career.

  • In circumstances like these, accompanied by an actual invasion of our territorial rights, it would be difficult at any time for me to remain an idle spectator under the plea of age and retirement.

  • He apprehended that both Knox and Pinckney (the latter yet in Europe) would feel aggrieved at the promotion of Hamilton over their heads, they being his seniors in age and superiors in rank.

  • In case of actual invasion by a formidable force, I certainly should not intrench myself under the cover of age and retirement, if my services should be required by my country to assist in repelling it.

  • As one of the young ladies of the house, I was of course entitled to be freed from some of the trammels that society imposes upon those of my age and sex.

  • Why should I not prefer youth and beauty to age and ugliness?

  • Surely, madam, they do not apply to persons of my age and standing.

  • I have the privilege of my age and of my transparent innocence.

  • In a time of public danger, the dull claims of age and of rank are sometimes superseded; and within five months after his return from Nice, the deacon Athanasius was seated on the archiepiscopal throne of Egypt.

  • At my age and in my profession, I don't profess to have any extraordinary softness of heart.

  • It really is too absurd in a man of Bashwood's age and appearance to presume to be in love!

  • In order to ascertain the number of males and females, 14 years of age and over, the number of Jewish immigrants under 14 years of age were distributed equally between the sexes.

  • A private treaty with the cral or despot of Servia was soon followed by an open revolt; and Cantacuzene, on the throne of the elder Andronicus, defended the cause of age and prerogative, which in his youth he had so vigorously attacked.

  • The patriarch Joseph had sunk under the weight of age and infirmities; his dying voice breathed the counsels of charity and concord, and his vacant benefice might tempt the hopes of the ambitious clergy.

  • But it was not till Othman was oppressed by age and infirmities, that he received the welcome news of the conquest of Prusa, which had been surrendered by famine or treachery to the arms of his son Orchan.

  • Hence, in pity to age and helplessness, he determined to settle two hundred pounds per annum on the wretched man's mother and sisters, who dwelt together in Wales.

  • We struggle, fain to enlarge Our bounded physical recipiency, Increase our power, supply fresh oil to life, Repair the waste of age and sickness.

  • How it strives weakly in the child, is loosed In manhood, clogged by sickness, back compelled By age and waste, set free at last by death.

  • In vain the struggle to Supply fresh oil to life, Repair the waste of age and sickness.

  • But if, as we are assured, there is no waste in Nature, whence comes the apparent destruction wrought by age and sickness?

  • Whoever studies the history of the race from age to age and nation to nation finds the world has advanced and not retrograded by giving responsibility to the individual.

  • These two successive prehistoric populations have been termed respectively men of the "mammoth" age and men of the "reindeer" age.

  • The great patriarch, venerable by age and wisdom, when he left this earth for the spirit world, was supposed there, in the presence of God, to be the special guardian of his children on earth.

  • I do not here refer to differences of age and sex.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "age and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    age and; age for compulsory military; age for voluntary military; aged about; aged eighty; aged father; aged fifty; aged mother; aged seventy; aged twenty; ager publicus; ages past; angry voice; assume that; diving bell; extremely pretty; feet lower; hear what; her lover; muscular strength; place where; protective duties; room fire; schools were; stood looking; weak voice