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    Use "old" in a sentence

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    old


    1. "Yeah, we found all kinds of old notes in your lockbox


    2. It was true, several layers of tough tape had already worn thru on his old ones


    3. "Have you kept all my old paperwork together?" she asked


    4. It was decades old and at least two years away, down in the Gengee somewhere


    5. There was some hand drawn street map in a foreign language in with it, and a faded old map of Gengee with some of that language on it


    6. In a way she did, it was a grimy old industrial city where there was nothing to do but drink and fuck and has-been old music still pneumatically amplified


    7. I would sail Bahia San Marcos and up the river between the old warehouses


    8. "We had a bit of variety for old times sake," she said


    9. While perhaps receding in the popular imagination, the image of the "dirty old man" that chases after young women has not disappeared


    10. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word for covenant is

    11. three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a


    12. ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young


    13. I was wearing an old 1970’s watch [a relic of my col ecting days] and


    14. The term fear of God in the Old Testament used as a


    15. Vera’s talking with the old lady, Ruthie, and a couple I don’t recognize


    16. He couldn't sell this place, he could sell his old one


    17. With that and his old place, he could buy a pretty nice place in town, a couple acres on the lagoon just a little ways down the point


    18. “The old guy does this?”


    19. He wondered where she was now, playing in the snows of Kugenzglaw? Or did she experience one winter and head right back down to her old place down Sinbara point? What if she'd come up to the Wild Catch last Nightday?


    20. Aldous emerged, smiling at Kira’s old lady griping

    21. In old age we can form new habits or revive old habits that are beneficial to us


    22. ” Aldous referenced an old American TV show


    23. Here the view over the rails was filled with what looked like the standard media supermodels of old Earth sunning themselves in the nude on the top decks of those garden floats


    24. In the Old Testament they have many


    25. All she could hear was the old man smacking his lips


    26. And he was so very old


    27. Before she could open her mouth with a good excuse, the old man began rambling again


    28. This kooky old man reminded her a little of her Pap Pap, even though he was a little uncouth


    29. ” His eyes were awash with some old memory


    30. Micah’s dad spent a lot of the day sitting watching the old “bunny ears TV” he got from the attic

    31. OTHER OLD AGE PROBLEMS


    32. Another child, maybe five years old in red coveralls, ran up to his mother’s legs


    33. The desk was filled to overflowing with paper, pens, clipboards, used coffee mugs, and a large, old computer


    34. 100 lbs would not be too much for a 10 year old tree


    35. We felt like two old friends and it just… happened, I guess


    36. The boat was undoubtably fast, as fast as an ocean racer from old Earth in all likelihood, but could go no faster than traffic on Third Canal


    37. Henry had just delivered a sales report to his boss that was over a year old


    38. Instead of asking, “How old are you?” we should ask, “How many years have you lived?”


    39. But the worst problem was, "I had all my old papers sent north when I thought I was moving there


    40. But she had to admit, she could almost feel the wind in her hair and the thrill of old Earth as it must have been before the motor laws

    41. Yes, the whole native data system is shut down for the forty or so hours of dark every week, no messages can be sent or picked up on the old crystals or the new


    42. She felt Tdeshi's hormones prompting her to blow off comfortable old Kulai and run off on an adventure with a dashing manly man, but Ava's sense of duty was going to force Herndon to pay for this junket with his fast boat


    43. He'd reproduced an artifact from his old culture, a culture that had changed beyond his recognition while he lay frozen between the stars


    44. At the same time it has been observed for years, for instance, that many executives with high-pressure jobs seem to remain quite healthy until old age – they seem to flourish in their pressure-cooker jobs


    45. "Waiting for parts," the man said, rubbing his hands on an old rag


    46. "You never thought we had any chance," he said, going over old ground


    47. His breath smelled like old meat


    48. A farmer purchases an old, run down, abandoned farm with plans to turn it into a thriving enterprise


    49. She turned around to see a woman, about eighteen years old, dressed all in black


    50. They were soon at the inlet to the tiny lagoon on her old property














































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    Synonyms for "old"

    old previous older bang-up bully corking cracking dandy great groovy keen neat nifty not bad peachy slap-up smashing swell erstwhile former one-time onetime quondam sometime familiar known aged patriarchal wintry elderly antiquated ancient superannuated antediluvian archaic prehistoric antique forgotten worn decayed grey deteriorated hoary dilapidated debilitated infirm seasoned adroit venerable experienced practiced skilled matured intelligent sedate adult sensible grown thoughtful cherished good dear adored beloved

    "old" definitions

    past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')


    (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age


    of long duration; not new


    (used for emphasis) very familiar


    skilled through long experience


    belonging to some prior time


    very good


    of a very early stage in development


    just preceding something else in time or order