Voting and Political Activities "I voted in South Carolina, but I wasn't old enough to vote in Georgia.
She was so glad freedom come on before her children come on old enough to sell.
Miss, you don't know what a hard life we slaves had, cause you ain't old enough to 'member it.
One boy and one girl were old enough to help their mother in the field and one stayed in the house with the babies, so she managed to make a living working by the day for the white people.
I am old enough to be your mother, and that it is not pretty behaviour to speak so to us--to me!
Cynthia is nearly eighteen, old enough to go out as a governess, if he wishes it, but I don't think he will.
Old enough to know what she was doing; but I'll call her a girl if you like.
She made another entry under the head of "Good": "I am old enough to consent, and so is Allan too.
I asked him if he actually thought me old enough to have known either of them.
You will soon be old enough to go out into the world if you don't like things at home; but she will have to bear what trouble comes to her.
I have only six months longer, for Easter is the time when Mr. Simmonds said that I should be old enough, and he will write to the lord lieutenant, and I suppose that in three months after that I should get my commission.
Naturally my mother is anxious, for the sake of Charlie and Lucy, that I should live to carry on the mill until Charlie is old enough to run it himself," Ned said bitterly.
And when thou goest take baby wi' thee and bring her up like thysel till she be old enough to coom back and look arter Luke and the house.
I shall get a clerkship or something in one of the mills, and I shall have Charlie to live with me until he is old enough to leave school, and then I will go away with him to America or somewhere.
I amold enough to be your father, you know; you may tell Mother that it is perfectly safe.
Nina is old enough to decide for herself--I had my own living to make at her age, and no father to write me checks for my birthdays, and no Uncle Edward to die and leave me a hundred and fifty thousand dollars!
As for little Florelle, she thought the child was quite old enough to be reasoned with, and taught not to cry so violently over every trifle.
I'm fifteen, and I think I'm old enough to do as I choose.
You know for years I've looked forward to the time when you should grow up to be old enough to keep house for me.
In other words, he must wait not only till she is old enough to marry but till her daughter is old enough to marry!
There are no "coy looks," no "feigning" in the actions of an Australian girl about to be married to a man who is old enough to be her grandfather.
There was the less impropriety in his kissing her, as she was probably a girl of fifteen or sixteen and he old enough to be her grandfather, or even great-grandfather, his age at the time of meeting her being seventy-seven.
What right has she to be so unnecessarily interested in my brother, who is old enough to have been her father?
He did not ask, Can that fair, graceful, gifted young thing ever love a gray-haired man, old enough to call her his daughter?
For fear of this acknowledgment being misunderstood, I think it right to add that I am old enough to be her grandfather, and that I am also a married man.
I shall be forty next birthday," he went on; "I am old enough to be your father.
Fear nothing," I said; "I am old enough to take care of myself.
A nursery Governess" said his wife "Why the baby isn't old enough to have one yet, remember it's only 6 months old.
It is not at all true what was said about me in my last situation and I am willing to come and look after your little boy and teach him when he is old enough.
She replied, "Anyone who is old enough to know right from wrong is old enough to join the Church.
One little girl who was going to join the Church was told by some of the members of her Sunday-school class that she wasn't old enough.
I think you're old enough to take this matter to God in prayer and let him decide it for you.
When you're old enough to desire the knowledge and to form the questions, you're old enough to receive an answer to your questions.
I wasn't old enoughto cry over him and wouldn't anyhow because I didn't care nothin' much about him.
I didn't do no work in slave time because I wasn't old enough.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "old enough" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
