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Example sentences for "grow older"

  • As we grow older, and sometimes a hope, sometimes a friend, is shivered from our path, the thought of an immortality will press itself forcibly upon us!

  • As we grow older, must we not awake out of sleep, and set to work, to be ready for the day of God which will dawn on us when we pass out of this mortal life into the world to come?

  • How every year, as we grow older seems to go more and more quickly, and there is less time to do what we want, to think seriously, to improve ourselves.

  • I have said this without claiming any special growth in humanity for myself, though I do hope I grow tenderer in my feelings as I grow older.

  • I am satisfied, that, as we grow older, we learn to look upon our bodies more and more as a temporary possession and less and less as identified with ourselves.

  • These thoughts remain very much the same from day to day, from week to week; and as we grow older, from month to month, and from year to year.

  • As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places.

  • Since it is in part a judgment of character in the most of us, it tends to grow less prominent as we grow older.

  • Under monotony the thought turns inward, there is daydreaming and introspection,[1] which are pleasurable only at certain times for most of us and which grow less pleasurable as we grow older.

  • I find the burden and restrictions of rhyme more and more troublesome as I grow older.

  • We become more and more automatic as we grow older, and if we lived long enough we should come to be pieces of creaking machinery like Maelzel's chess player,--or what that seemed to be.

  • We are surprised, as we grow older, to find that the legendary hell of the church is nothing more nor less than the Tartarus of the old heathen world.

  • Perhaps very young persons may not understand this; as we grow older, our waking and dreaming life run more and more into each other.

  • As we grow older, I think we are less and less able to remember our dreams.

  • We should grow happier as we grow older because of two things, increasing power of service, and a growing capacity for enjoyment.

  • And do we not see why we grow happier as we grow older?

  • The tolerant spirit we often acquire as we grow older.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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