AGE in a Sentence

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1. A lazy youth, a lousy age.
2. An idle youth, a needy age.
3. Her age disqualified her for the job.
4. He must be getting near retiring age.
5. The children average seven years of age.

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 Meanings and Examples of AGE
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age
 n.  length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed
 n.  a certain time in history
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her daughter Cunegonde was seventeen years of age, fresh-coloured, comely, plump, and desirable.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The Preceptor Pangloss was the oracle of the family, and little Candide heard his lessons with all the good faith of his age and character.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
3  Azof was destroyed by fire, the inhabitants put to the sword, neither sex nor age was spared; until there remained only our little fort, and the enemy wanted to starve us out.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XII
4  Excuse me," said he, "if my age deprives me of the honour of accompanying you.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
5  My parents forced me at the age of fifteen to put on this detestable habit, to increase the fortune of a cursed elder brother, whom God confound.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
6  I was sixty years of age when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its affairs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
7  , at the age of eighty, held himself erect and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
8  One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom were over sixty years of age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM.
9  He had lost his father and mother at a very early age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
10  He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, to write, to cipher.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
11  In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his great age permitted.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
12  He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his marmot-box on his back.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
13  Her father was an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, who went out to give lessons in spite of his age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
14  At the age of ten, Fantine quitted the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
15  To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  An idle youth, a needy age.
17  A lazy youth, a lousy age.
18  At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judgment.
19  Love sees no color, age, or looks, it only sees what in your heart.
20  Babies start to get mobile around the age of eight months.
21  Her age disqualified her for the job.
22  He must be getting near retiring age.
23  The children average seven years of age.
24  Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
25  The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
26  In youth the hours are golden in mature years they are silver, in old age they are leaden.
27  The only secret a woman can keep is that of her age.
28  One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
29  It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age.
30  The book was written in a style appropriate to the age of the children.