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Example sentences for "old man"

  • It's making an old man of me before my time.

  • An old man, bony and hale, accompanied by a barefooted lad, brought the beasts, which were tolerably good.

  • As I was gazing on the prospect an old man driving a peat cart came from the direction in which I was going.

  • Passing through the northern suburb of Bangor I saw a small house in front of which was written “post-office” in white letters; before this house underneath a shrub in a little garden sat an old man reading.

  • He was then an old man, and had served many kings.

  • Arnkel and Erlend fell in a war expedition; but Thorfin ruled the country long, and became an old man.

  • In the high-seat sat an old man; and never had Bjorn or his companions seen a man so stout.

  • I met the other day an old man, who asked me to drink.

  • I'd ha' been willin' t' ha' her about me till I died and went to lie by my old man.

  • And the gleam of queer amusement came back into the old man's deep-set eyes.

  • I am an old man, and was tired of my life.

  • He is an old man, and his prejudices are very strong.

  • Hold up, old man," I said, clapping him on the shoulder.

  • It was only some commonplace order that was bawled out, but the sound fell upon the old man's ears with a strange mixture of disuse and familiarity.

  • He was an old man, and had been a personal friend of Elias Hicks.

  • The two lower windows were lighted, and the dark figure of an old man, with a skull-cap upon his head, was framed in one of them.

  • But, while he was planning and pondering, the boys became young men, and he was an old man.

  • And you can't fool me, either, old man," Presley continued.

  • Old man Tree, his wife, and his daughter Hilma looked after the dairy.

  • Good Lord, your hops must pay you big, now, old man.

  • Hello, old man," answered Presley, coming up to the engine.

  • I don't want to seem to be officious, but you've changed for the better, old man, and I guess I know why.

  • As I saw him, he was a tall, old man, wearing a black Inverness coat and a rather shabby silk hat.

  • Sorry, old man," whispered Smith, and his voice was barely audible.

  • Put that back, old man," he said quietly.

  • I know you will forgive me, old man," he said, "but there is a little problem which I am trying to work out in my mind.

  • Old man Chapman's a pretty good typefounder, you have to hand it to him.

  • Say, old man, I thought you was a goner," he said sympathetically.

  • This is Ratisbon, old man, but don't bark about it.

  • It was pity--pity for a poor, frightened, old man.

  • His medicine is true medicine--yours is the weak medicine of an old man with a hole in his face.

  • He saw an old man, a very old man with scrawny neck and wrinkled face--a dried, parchment-like face which resembled some of the little monkeys Tarzan knew so well.

  • As the first years of a marriage are usually the most fruitful, we may fairly conclude that our common mother was an old man's darling.

  • But he is always an old man, and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the nuns may be warned to avoid him, a bell is attached to his knee.

  • Behind it came an old man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along.

  • And we're not goin' back on you, old man.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "old man" 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:
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