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Example sentences for "centenarian"

Lexicographically close words:
centage; centaur; centaury; centavo; centavos; centenarians; centenary; center; centerboard; centered
  1. Ozius the centenarian wagged approvingly his white head and long beard.

  2. Drops of resin fell thickly from the centenarian trees, old as the temple.

  3. Chevreuil, the famous centenarian dean of French science, as to the nature and properties of fatty substances.

  4. This garden was a delightful, solitary nook, perfumed by the ripe fruit of the centenarian orange-trees, whose symmetrical lines were the only indication of the former pathways, now hidden beneath rank weeds.

  5. I allude to the opening of the ceremony by the centenarian white man, "the first and only man.

  6. Hold on, my friend, your Castalia centenarian proves just what I said at the outset, that the use of tobacco prolongs life, but I am half inclined myself to feel that the less tobacco active Americans use, the better.

  7. This Castalia centenarian is dead to all the demands of society and humanity, and his corpse should have been buried half a century ago.

  8. We first rode to the residence of Mrs. J-n, one of the almost centenarian representatives of the generation cotemporary with our Revolution, now so few and hoary.

  9. Leaving the ancient cemetery, we returned to the city, and called upon the almost centenarian Captain Erastus Perkins, residing on Shetucket Street.

  10. Why this made me feel like a centenarian I do not know, especially as it was five years ahead of the facts.

  11. The day had become quite hot when the centenarian faggot-binder saw the lady and the great dog say adieu to the gentleman in the light summer suit, and noted with some satisfaction that the adieu was a loving one.

  12. She goes on to tell how she had interviewed the centenarian on the subject, and been fully enlightened.

  13. Her centenarian mind probably thought it was only the usual thing--the use of eighty odd years agone, when she first knew of it; and so till now, except folk were changed since then.

  14. Vortigern perceived in the center of a cluster of centenarian chestnut trees a hut constructed of thick layers of peat heaped upon one another.

  15. Outside of the fortified enclosure, a forest of centenarian oaks extended to the north and east; to the south, green meadows sloped gently towards the windings of a swift running river that was bordered with beeches and alders.

  16. The centenarian cast a look at Vortigern with a negative sign of the head.

  17. They hastened to the shore; but the vision of the centenarian sagamore put them all to shame.

  18. The centenarian Membertou was still alive, his leathern, wrinkled visage beaming with welcome.

  19. What could that treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret?

  20. The grandfather's sovereign good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person regulated his conduct on that almost centenarian cordiality.

  21. On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories.

  22. In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey of Fontevrault.

  23. Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this centenarian as erect as a young man.

  24. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science BY M.

  25. A few days later Senor Manuel Garcia went to dine with Hermann Klein, who had come over from New York for a few weeks, and here the centenarian renewed his acquaintance with his pupil's younger brother, Charles.

  26. It must have brought the centenarian a great and justifiable pride when on that day he looked on the representatives of the Laryngological societies encircling the world, who united to call him Father.

  27. This brought the first part of the programme to a close, and the centenarian returned to his home, which was inundated with telegrams and baskets of flowers.

  28. Before leaving it, we will cast an eye over some of the figures prominent in the musical and artistic world of Paris during the twenty years in which the centenarian made it his home.

  29. Irving, and a third at the Mansion House in honour of the King of Spain, by whose special request the Centenarian was invited to be present.

  30. The centenarian accepted with the air of a grandee, and extended his horn snuff-box.

  31. The centenarian remembered Fremont and Governor Alvarado, and the bandit Jesus Tejeda, and the days when Los Muertos was a Spanish grant, a veritable principality, leagues in extent, and when there was never a fence from Visalia to Fresno.

  32. De La Cuesta held the grant of Los Muertos in those days," the centenarian said; "a grand man.

  33. An old Spanish-Mexican, a centenarian from Guadalajara, remembered Fremont's stand on a mountain top in San Benito County.

  34. Madame Robineau’s relatives had died comparatively early in life, and a centenarian was unknown in her family.

  35. The centenarian greeted Euphrasia with a ghastly smile, receiving her honeyed words in reply.

  36. Right after him another centenarian said he had lived over a hundred years, and he ascribed it to the fact that for the last fifty years he had hardly seen a sober moment.

  37. In the west of the town is a magnificent avenue of centenarian orange trees which were carefully respected by the architects who out of the old city made the new.

  38. He washed his face with certain compounds, which gave it an appearance of forms of illness, and he played the senility of a centenarian to the life.

  39. Candid and smiling, those all but centenarian heroes triumphed in the overflowing florescence of their race.

  40. There are historical instances of centenarian noues.

  41. But an abstemious life will drag even the old body along to centenarian limits in a tolerable state of preservation and usefulness.

  42. It is a rather remarkable fact in connection with the examples of longevity cited that in almost every instance the centenarian is a person in the humblest rank of life.

  43. It is reported that quite recently a Chinese centenarian passed the examination for the highest place in the Academy of Mandarins.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centenarian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    centenarian; centipede; centurion; century; dotard; elder; geezer; grandfather; graybeard; gross; hundred; octogenarian; older; pantaloon; patriarch; tercentenary; veteran