Use the word old in a sentence

Examples of how to use the word “old” in a sentence. How to connect “old” with other words to make correct English sentences.

old (adj): having lived or existed for many years

Use “old” in a sentence

That old man caught a large fish.
He is an old friend of mine.
Do you know the old lady at the gate?
Her grey hair makes her look older than she is.
Even though he’s very old, he’s healthy.
Do you know the old lady at the gate?
She helped the old man across the street.
Her older sister got married last month.
The city is a mixture of old and new buildings.
Her older sister got married last month.
Who is that old woman?
How old is your father?
How old do you think I am?

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Synonym: abandoned, aged, ancient, antique, elderly, former, mature, obsolete, outworn, stale. Antonym: new, young. Similar words: fold, hold, odd, add, aid, all, and, bad. Meaning: [əʊld]  n. past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old’). adj. 1. (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age 2. of long duration; not new 3. (used for emphasis) very familiar 4. just preceding something else in time or order 5. of a very early stage in development 6. old in experience 7. belonging to some prior time 8. (used informally especially for emphasis). 

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1 The old goose plays not with foxes. 

2 You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. 

3 Old birds are not caught with new nets. 

4 An old dog will learn no new tricks. 

5 Don’t put new wine into old bottles. 

6 It is never too old to learn. 

7 No fool like an old fool. 

8 If the old dog barks, he gives counsel. 

9 No fool to the old fool. 

10 There is life in the old dog yet. 

11 There is no better looking-glass than an old friend. 

12 Never too old (or late) to learn. 

13 If you wish good advice, consult an old man. 

14 An old physician, and a young lawyer. 

15 As the old cock crows, the young (one) learns. 

16 Old acquaintances will soon be remembered. 

17 An old dog cannot alter its way of barking. 

18 The devil knows may things because he is old

19 Economy is the easy chair of old age. 

20 Need makes the old wife trot. 

21 Whoso learns young, forgets not when he is old

22 A young man idle, an old man needy. 

23 Trust not a new friend nor an old enemy. 

24 There is no fool like an old fool. 

25 A man [one] is never too old to learn. 

26 An old dog barks not in vain. 

27 There is no fool to the old fool. 

28 There’s no fool like an old fool. 

29 Spare when you’re young,(www.Sentencedict.com) and spend when you’re old

30 Familiar paths and old friends are the best. 

More similar words: fold, hold, odd, add, aid, all, and, bad, bid, bolt, bond, cord, could, dad, doll, end, folk, food, good, holy, kid, lid, load, mild, mud, nod, oak, odds, of, off. 

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

51.
Our engagements after retirement lead to interactions with different kinds of persons, such as immediate family members, near relatives, close friends, old acquaintances and new contacts


52.
A failure to recognize changes in old relationships and making appropriate adjustments can be misread as indifference


53.
He has enough aluminum in old pencil stubs to pay her off


54.
“Why would you want to play that game, old man? It’s old!”


55.
“What’s wrong with old?”


56.
The ranch’s entrance was old, wooden, and weatherworn


57.
“Big, strong guy like you being shown up by little, old me?” she purred in his ear


58.
He’s an old pony


59.
» That sounded rather small, but then again, she had managed to dig up what happened to Tdeshi on a trail that was twenty decades old, this was only fourteen


60.
The other was a faded old geological map of the Gengee, where a desolate wasteland deep in the West Gengee Empty was marked up in Portuguese

61.
She is almost too mature and soon she will be too old and developed to dance professionally


62.
She’d bought them at a garage sale, said they’d be sitting in them when they were old farts and had a porch


63.
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions


64.
They wanted to retain their old language, and their consumer social structure


65.
He walked over to the old computer on his desk and typed in the password


66.
«To me, you seem like you’re worried about that old starship for a bigger purpose than the money


67.
We plan for old age and build house, invest intelligently but if we succumb to love and write away every thing to our children then we are sowing the seed of pain and suffering


68.
Henry was referring to the really old computer Johnny had in his room


69.
The house we live in and hope to pass our old age in peace and happiness must remain in our name, if necessary with our partner


70.
It was now over a thousand Earth years old, and the characters were archaic and florid

71.
Also remove any old tree stumps which you may have around as this may become host for the termites


72.
«I will call you Serpent,» he said, which in the old tongue meant to crawl or creep around


73.
Once you have found signs of wood damage and you have determined that it’s not just old decaying wood then you have to decide if it’s termites or carpenter ants that you have


74.
«Old friend!» Serpent cried


75.
‘Joanna was shot with that old gun of Grandpa’s … you know, the one I gave to the drama group


76.
Ackers had turned over every moveable item that he could lift and dumped its contents all over the floor, he had tossed all Johnny’s clothes from the closet, he had even taken apart Johnny’s old computer and made sure that the Chip wasn’t hidden anywhere in that prehistoric machine


77.
Your lawn will benefit by having a thin layer of aged (at least 6 months old) horse manure spread over it (using a manure spreader), and then watered well


78.
“When they ran out of corpses to catapult over the walls, records say that an old bearded man took two axes to the wall and attempted to scale it in the dead of night


79.
It may not be easy for sons and daughters who have to care for old parents


80.
In the villages, while the old do have a place in the community, but the infrastructure and care available is unsatisfactory and insufficient

81.
What difference does it make? Do you plan to use that shuttlecraft and that rusty old starship to escape?»


82.
An old man sitting on one of the benches nearby, GABRIEL, looks up at John


83.
Peter slept in an old left shoe in an alley, all nustled up next to his ma and pop


84.
While we grow old and even if we live an independent life, there are occasions when somebody else has to look after our needs


85.
«Why do we have to live with this old bottle of pop? He ain’t my real pa anyhow!»


86.
Peter woke up in a room with an old man sitting in a rocking chair


87.
The old man had a rabbit as a butler, except the rabbit stood on two legs, twitching his whiskers in his little butler outfit


88.
An International NGO (which is also active in India) has facilitated the establishment of Old People’s Associations in four locations across Shaanxi Province in China


89.
Old People’s Associations can help to restore the position of elders in village society


90.
She had run off with the guy who looked more like what her old culture called ‘manly’ hadn’t she? Against her better judgement, every step of the way

91.
‘It took me back to my uni days … it was quite like old times


92.
‘So how old is she?’


93.
How ironic however, she was nearly three times as old as anyone on Earth was the day she was born, but she was young for a native


94.
He could smell all the books from all over the world, the crisp and musty mix of old and new pages


95.
We have also the responsibility to help our less fortunate brethren, at least in their old age, to be exposed to spiritual thoughts and service to others instead of self-preservation


96.
He passes a small pond, where an old man, ENOCH, fishes


97.
China is old and so is her knowledge of the ocean


98.
In old age when we have enormous leisure time it is natural for us to ask ourselves questions about self-consciousness and co-ordination between the brain, the mind and the soul


99.
Up until fairly recently, I have seen him at least once a week … he loves his old gran


100.
Humic Acid: Comes from Leonardite Ore, millions of years old

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Old means not new, it is an adjective used to describe a noun:

The old man wore an old, shabby coat and old, scuffed shoes and cheerful smile.

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