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Example sentences for "little older"

  • When he got a little older, he hoped that everything would be better, and there was no hurry about anything.

  • Often Terence would come and listen to them, too, for he seemed to be less afraid of Mrs. O'Brien as he grew a little older.

  • As he grew a little older, he never could be got inside a church.

  • If we are a little older, however, and more sophisticated, we shall suspect the owner of Stafford Park and his architect of a design to make it appear imposing.

  • Hastings," she answered, "when you get a little older, you will learn to confine yourself to your own opinions.

  • Perhaps I'll tell you when you're a little older.

  • With the Ivy the stems of seedlings are moderately heliotropic, whilst those of the same plants when grown a little older * Strasburger has shown in his interesting work ('Wirkung des Lichtes.

  • It is remarkable that when our plants had grown a little older, viz.

  • The cotyledons whilst young do not sink at night, but when grown a little older, but still only .

  • If I were a little older I would fall in love with you, and worry you a great deal with my attentions.

  • A little older, and a little paler,” I replied, “but certainly you look more natural to me this moment than you have for four years.

  • He appeared a little older, a little braver, a little wiser, yet there was about him still the look of superb physical vitality which had been the result of a youth spent in the open fields.

  • Mr. Chamberlayne says thar'll be an income of goin' on ten thousand dollars a year by the time you're a little older.

  • His mother looked a little older--his father not.

  • She was a little older, no doubt of that.

  • He would come out of all this silly feeling about other women once he became a little older, and then he would be all right.

  • She seemed nice and he fancied intelligent--a little older than he would have preferred any woman to be who was to interest him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little above; little abruptly; little amused; little astonished; little bitterly; little blue; little closer; little creek; little distance from the; little dove; little farm; little grim; little grimace; little hard; little lime; little niggers; little noise; little past; little picture; little pile; little powdered; little river; little season; little south; little too; little world