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Example sentences for "older people"

  • She is as sympathetic to children as to older people; she cuts out wonderful paper dolls and soldier hats, always leisurely and easily as though it cost neither time nor effort.

  • As those who have sent you flowers approach, you must thank them; you must also write later an additional note of thanks to older people.

  • You hesitate between a few of your own intimates, or older people, and decide it would be such fun to ask a few of the hostesses whose houses you have almost lived at ever since you "came out.

  • Older people, on the other hand, very often go for a supper to one of the cabarets for which New York is famous (or infamous?

  • If the waiting-room is crowded, and there are not seats for all, the young ought cheerfully to give place to older people, especially to old ladies and to mothers with little children in their arms.

  • Our tone and manner should be cordial to all and respectful to older people.

  • It is polite to wait until all or nearly all are helped before beginning to eat; and children should never begin before older people.

  • In older people it is a familiar gesture among those who think much of one another, and represents a very natural tendency.

  • Cubebs cigarettes have the same effect on older people.

  • What Frank Stockton has done for older people, Harriet Morgan does for boys and girls.

  • Really it's the duty of older people to help us all they can.

  • The girls were making up little groups to go to the game with youths of their acquaintance as escorts, under the chaperonage of older people.

  • The reason seems to be that the need for discipline or training makes itself most quickly felt where children--or older people--infringe upon the rights of others, or upon the proprieties.

  • And this incident illustrates nearly everything that makes the adolescent so puzzling and so exasperating to older people.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "older people" 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:
    all that; answer the; been lost; chronic catarrh; different distances; dispute about; eighteen months; foreign soil; great quantitie; head bent; little finger; middling size; natural history; objects found; older brother; older children; older ones; older people; prepared for; private gentleman; regarded the; report from; saue themselues; still extant; tone production