How to Use elder in a Sentence

elder

1 of 2 noun
  • Our elders know how to make tools and sealskin pants the right way.
    — Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The church elders have denied the claims.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas Morning News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This is so much from oral tradition told to me again by elders.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • Or elders and younger people get to talk to each other.
    — Carmen Rios, Flow Space, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But wealthy elders aren’t in a big hurry to discuss those plans with the kids.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Don’t wait to talk to your elders and don’t worry about writing it all down.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
  • High school students have walked out of class, and elders have turned up to protests in the frigid cold.
    — David Ostendorf, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
  • But there is no such law protecting elders.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Where children could bond with their elders and fall in love with the sounds and smells and scenery of sports.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • All of them faced a single felony count of elder or dependent adult abuse.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Calls come in about elders caught in financial scams or elders who are sick.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026
  • There’s the leader, and then there are these elders and people under them.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Kōnane cackles with the frayed voice of a centuries-old elder.
    — Matt Negrin, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2025
  • On top of that, child care has become a second mortgage as has caring for your elders.
    — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Party elders have not vanished from public life in the Xi era.
    — Deng Yuwen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Some of the young may also inherit some of their elders’ money, too.
    — Allison Schrager, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Some of this depends on the culture of your family, and of how these elders have lived their own lives.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
  • Younger generations are assumed to be more tech-savvy than their elders.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Youth and elders argued about where to position the grave, aunties and nieces joked around in the kitchen.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The Samburu elder walked them hours more to a meeting place where they could be picked up by a ranger.
    — WSJ, 26 Aug. 2023
  • These are our children, our parents, our siblings, our elders, our neighbors, and our loved ones.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • There is no real single profile of a person that would kidnap an elder.
    — Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • The three portraits depict Aki at three stages of life — as a youth, a middle-aged man and an elder.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
  • All of the defendants faced a single felony count of elder or dependent adult abuse.
    — Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • One shows a family elder, another a field of sugar cane on fire.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • By the late sixties, men under forty were killing fewer seals on average than their elders were.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Wrestling fans who grew up watching with their elders can now share this moment with the next generation.
    — Justin Barrasso, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The local elders still recall a time when the birdlife was so plentiful that the sky was dark with magpie geese.
    — Bianca Nogrady, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Donell was charged with murder and one count of elder or dependent adult abuse resulting in death.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • On this day families gather for festive meals, and the young seek blessings from their elders.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Apr. 2026

elder

2 of 2 adjective
  • The band received some oddball counsel from elder statesmen of the scene.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
  • My elder daughter, Maida, had taken forty hours to be born.
    — Jeanie Riess, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Many of these calls start with referrals from elder law attorneys.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The defendant was charged with robbery, assault, and elder abuse.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The first episode also discussed aging, elder care, and losing a spouse to death or divorce.
    — Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Ask for the fraud department or an elder financial exploitation team if the bank has one.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 June 2026
  • Other challenges are more specific to elder care.
    — Chao Guo, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • But these categories devour a strong showing from elder statesmen.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Deputies say Karen Whitaker was a victim of financial elder abuse.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
  • He was acquitted of a misdemeanor count of inflicting injury on an elder adult.
    — City News Service, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025
  • In his later years, Jackson became an elder statesman in the civil rights movement.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Experts say caregiver burnout, fatigue, lack of training, and even guilt can contribute to elder abuse.
    — Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Mandatory elder abuse reporting laws were born of good intentions.
    — Nina A. Kohn, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Their elder daughter, Alisa, was being watched by Candy.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In healthcare and elder care, humanoids can be a practical response to the caregiver shortage.
    — Ashutosh Saxena, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Because of a shortage of elder-care infrastructure and workers, many of them will face the disease with far too little support.
    — Marion Renault, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Japan has invested heavily in robotics for elder care.
    — Theresa McDonnell, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Laraaji is an elder statesman of modern ambient music.
    — Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Austria’s other elder statesman will join Alaba as the team’s leader.
    — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 7 June 2026
  • Some data brokers have been caught red-handed packaging large datasets and selling them directly to scammers for elder fraud.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • Some states have started to broaden these rules to allow candidates to use campaign funds for other dependent care, too, like elder care.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Healthcare, including home healthcare and elder care, has boomed despite a cooling labor market.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2026
  • To older people—to my elder millennial self, at times—these fantasies may feel like overcorrections.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025
  • This particular idea has gained traction in part because such elder statesmen have, in fact, played a central role in the party’s history.
    — Deng Yuwen, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Their elder son, Nick, has since been arrested on a murder charge in connection with their killings, and is being held at $4 million bail.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Topics include aging care costs; healthy aging including mental and physical health and wellness; and elder scam and fraud.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
  • During the war Menelaus serves under his elder brother Agamemnon, the commander in chief of the Greek forces.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
  • But by analyzing the pros and cons of various designs, our research team hopes to develop a time-banking model tailored to elder care.
    — Chao Guo, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
  • For more than two decades, the cost of essential services—child care, health care, higher education, and elder care—has crept up faster than the overall pace of inflation.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
  • Like O’Leary, elder care industry leaders nationwide are bracing for the loss of a key pillar of their workforce.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 1 Feb. 2026

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