How to Use old age in a Sentence

old age

1 of 2 noun
  • Dogs can lose control of their bladder in old age.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026
  • What an end that would be, to rest at the place that brought you to me, the great gift of my old age.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Jackson died of old age in 1913.
    — Terell Bailey, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Red varieties aren’t the only ones that make it to old age.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The time of our lives doesn’t simply march from spring through winter, from youth to old age.
    — Linda McNamar, Oc Register, 11 May 2025
  • Even in old age, Pinkie remained a gracious host.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026
  • By the time life was brought to perfection, old age had arrived.
    — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The post cited, among other things, old age for the closure.
    — Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 Feb. 2026
  • His last dog, Cindy, lived a long life and passed away peacefully from old age.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 22 June 2025
  • Some have children or grandchildren to help provide for them in their old age.
    — Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • And across from that, a peach tree, heavy with small roundish puffs that in the fresco symbolize old age.
    — Mark Schapiro, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Dogs have heat cycles and remain fertile even into old age.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The star chooses old age, as Martin tickles the ivories.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Secondly, the mice had healthy thymus glands well into old age.
    — Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Kaua’i, on the other hand, is more than 5 million years old and is shrinking in its old age.
    — Brianna Randall, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • Many of her clients were wealthy noblemen and statesmen who had promised to support her in her old age.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Aging research doesn’t tend to be about finding the one cure that fixes all that may ail you in old age.
    — Ellen Quarles, Fortune Well, 7 July 2023
  • Alzheimer’s is not primarily a disease of old age.
    — Elizabeth Bevins, STAT, 16 June 2026
  • The last straw for Sharon is the fate of the towering maple, which appears to have died of old age.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Inside was an infant – the sole survivor of a planet destroyed by old age.
    — Miriam Eve Mora, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Weight loss in old age might be an early warning sign for dementia, a new study suggests.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Feb. 2025
  • There’s a lot that can be done to positively impact brain health before old age.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 21 Nov. 2025
  • That was especially true with those scenes in which Michael played my father in his old age.
    — Georgette Jones, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
  • That card is like a welcome package into old age, but his fit, active sister didn’t feel old.
    — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 25 June 2026
  • The King just quipped with a veteran about his old age, and dropped a secret to living a long life.
    — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 June 2025
  • He is played in old age by Will Lyman, who does not appear until very late in the play.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Both child-free by choice, they were reminded that not having children means there'll be no one to take care of them in old age.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Doing so increases the size of the financial war chest one can deploy in old age.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 24 May 2026
  • During one of those jumps, a woman was purposefully left out of her bobble and dies of old age.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • Not only that, but studies have found that daughters are much more likely to take care of their parents in their old age.
    — Regina Kim, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

old-age

2 of 2 adjective
  • Think child support payments for the parents of young children, think old-age pensions.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
  • These accusations traffic in old-age antisemitic tropes.
    — Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Whose old-age makeup will be as entertaining as Joel Kinnaman’s?
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • The Netherlands has reduced old-age poverty to less than 3% through a universal pension paired with strong occupational plans.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
  • These measures have accelerated the insolvency of the old-age benefits program.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The old-age Rolling Stones tour came true as Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have continued to do shows into their 80s.
    — Zoe Kaplan, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
  • In a dream sequence, the entertainers each appear as themselves, just 50 years older in an old-age home, preparing to watch that very special in 2025.
    — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Another warning sign is China's rising old-age dependency ratio, which measures the number of people aged 65 and over relative to the working-age population.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • In late 1824, an aged Salieri (Bettany in atrocious old-age makeup) has summoned Constanze Mozart (Gabrielle Creevy in an even less convincing face) to make a confession.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In the early 1990s, the nation’s old-age dependency ratio—the population aged 65 and over as a percentage of the population aged 15 to 64—was around 15 percent.
    — Tej Parikh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The Social Security trust fund will run dry in 2032, unless Congress combines the program's old-age and disability funds, in which case insolvency would arrive in 2034, the report found.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • At the Las Vegas convention, both Cruise, 63, and the Birdman director, 62, were present to share the teaser, which showed an older Cruise with white, thinning hair and wrinkles, thanks to some prosthetics, old-age makeup and a hairpiece.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • China's old-age dependency ratio stood at 21 percent in 2024, according to estimates by the United Nations' World Population Prospects.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Recent releases include Cannes Directors’ Fortnight baseball comedy Eephus by Carson Lund; revenge thriller Ghost Trail by Jonathan Millet, and Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age drama Familiar Touch, starring Kathleen Chalfant, which won the Lion of the Future at Venice last year.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025

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