How to Use superannuated in a Sentence

superannuated

adjective
  • Etched onto it is a circle of faces of superannuated ÖVP grandees.
    — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Breasts come in for their share of drollery as well in a play that sets up two superannuated choruses, one droopily male, the other saggingly female.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Our health care, housing, recreation and retirement institutions are not set up to manage the needs of the superannuated.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • The Irish presidency was little more than heaven’s vestibule for superannuated politicians, but Robinson put new fire in the office.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The remaking of the High Line turned a chunk of superannuated freight infrastructure into a verdant catwalk.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Spores have often been suggested as a vehicle for superannuated bacteria.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Everest has become an antidote to mid-life crises — a quotidian item on the bucket lists of superannuated dentists and CFOs.
    — Time, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Mascherano had given the ball away repeatedly in the first half, and a vital presence for Argentina over the years who increasingly looks superannuated.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 26 June 2018
  • No superannuated Skywalker, marooned on his little island rock.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Instead, the Italians have learned that every building, every structure, is a palimpsest, and that their lives within it, superannuated or brief, contribute another layer to its long narrative.
    — Hanya Yanagihara, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Her enjoyable pictures, which first featured in a 2014 French edition, show the adventures of four superannuated farm animals who band together to find a new home in an unfriendly world.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Not just the question of superannuated friendships, but also past-prime careers, aging bodies, senior finances and calcifying personality traits are all fairly coldly examined here.
    — Marion Winik, Star Tribune, 31 July 2020
  • The idea that August is a quiet month when news takes a vacation has always been a myth of journalism, devised mainly to justify European levels of summer sloth by its more superannuated practitioners.
    — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Predominantly white, male and English, the cabbies present a superannuated vision of Britain, next to the ethnically diverse immigrants and other strivers who get behind the wheel and slap an Uber decal on their window.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Yet the train of military vehicles that appeared was remarkably tame, a cavalcade of superannuated weapons platforms serving as a reminder of the degree to which the military-industrial complex, glutted with money and pampered by Congress, has run out of new ideas.
    — Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025

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