AGE in a Sentence

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420 example sentences for AGE, such as:
1. The age of miracles is past.
2. Wine and judgement mature with age.
3. What youth is used to, age remembers.
4. Youth looks forward and age backward.
5. Economy is the easy chair of old age.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AGE
age
 n.  an era of history having some distinctive feature
 v.  make older
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)
1  I would put his age at about seventy.
2  Of his age, the child is above the norm in arithmetic.
3  According to the new regulations,mining engineers retire at the age of fifty-five.
4  Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as adult.
5  The male menopause is said to affect men who are approaching middle age.
6  I can't look after six children at my age - it's too much.
7  Rear sons for help in old age; and store up grains against famine.
8  The golden age is before us, not behind us.
9  Youth looks forward and age backward.
10  The age of miracles is past.
11  Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
12  For age and want save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.
13  What youth is used to, age remembers.
14  Economy is the easy chair of old age.
15  Wine and judgement mature with age.