Old Sentence Examples

My parents used to listen to those old songs.

The old woman spoke to one of the younger women.

It is an old dream.

She was becoming a bitter old maid.

And the words of the old minister came true.

How old is he?

I'll beat Old Prickly, all right.

What's the point of living to a ripe old age if you can't enjoy yourself?

He was a very little boy, but before he was three years old he could read quite well.

It shall be on your family's behalf that I'll start my apprenticeship as old maid.

When Aesop was about twenty years old his master lost a great deal of money and was obliged to sell his slaves.

The car was six years old now, but it was in good shape and still had low mileage.

They would all get together and wash her old car, winding up in a gleeful water fight.

Come on down, Old Dan Tucker.

My father lived to be ninety years old, and he never went on no fat diet.

Six-month old Dandy nickered to his mother, but Casper was busy talking to Princess and Dawn.

All that July the old prince was exceedingly active and even animated.

At least at this point, the old house was paying for itself.

The car had been shut up long enough that it smelled of old upholstery.

In Richmond, Virginia, one Saturday morning, an old man went into the market to buy something.

Benjamin Franklin lived to be a very old man, but he never forgot that lesson.

Most of the old men answered that they did not know of any such person.

I love old cars.

It's old, but still in good condition.

Some might be that old, but to remember back then, they'd be more'n ninety.

Watch, and as soon as the soldiers are ready to start, hang a lantern in the tower of the old North Church.

When the old bell-wether at the head rattles his bell, the mountains do indeed skip like rams and the little hills like lambs.

She didn't like putting her mother's old China in the dishwasher.

At ten years old, Jonathan was almost as tall as she was.

An old Cat was in a fair way to kill all the Mice in the barn.

When they reached Mr. Johnson's house, the old man politely handed him the turkey and turned to go.

The human race is interested in these experiments, though a few old women who are incapacitated for them, or who own their thirds in mills, may be alarmed.

One of the old men nearest to him looked round, but his attention was immediately diverted by an exclamation at the other side of the table.

I'm old and weak and this is what you wanted.

Maybe Nick and Angela would like to go with her to visit the old place in the mountains after she graduated.

It makes me feel old.

A blue haired old lady with a walker and her mate hauling an oxygen tank looked at me as If I was the Boston strangler.

Just then Dorothy, who had risen early and heard the voices of the animals, ran out to greet her old friends.

It's the same old wolf that has been skulking around here all winter.

So, when he was eighteen years old, he ran away from his pleasant home and went to sea.

On the day appointed, forty gray- bearded, honest old men stood before the caliph.

By the midpoint of the twentieth century, America's dreamers were preoccupied with the future—and not just any old future, but the great and glorious future that seemed inevitable.

He basically followed old agriculture; he planted a lot of seed and hoped for rain.

He has filled the old skins of dogma with the new wine of love, and shown men what it is to believe, live and be free.

Poor old Nancy is growing old and very feeble.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in; for him the old will do, that has lain dusty in the garret for an indeterminate period.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Old Rostov could not tell his wife of what had passed without tears, and at once consented to Petya's request and went himself to enter his name.

Princess Mary noticed to her surprise that during this illness the old prince not only excluded her from his room, but did not admit Mademoiselle Bourienne either.

At dinner that day, on Dessalles' mentioning that the French were said to have already entered Vitebsk, the old prince remembered his son's letter.

I just didn't see any point in spending money on new clothes when my old ones still had a lot of wear in them.

You and Fritz are both old enough to be her father.

I'm an old man.

We'll kick it up old school.

All who reach old age must lose their strength and become like him, feeble and gray.

The first mechanism is the creation of things, an old and familiar approach.

It will know everyone who is supposed to be in the house and alert you when someone else is in the house (replacing the family dog of old in whom we never fully placed our trust).

Belle, our dog, my other companion, was old and lazy and liked to sleep by the open fire rather than to romp with me.

The old man was living as a convict, submitting as he should and doing no wrong.

Staring out the bay window at the old house, she abandoned her coffee cup on the window sill.

The old house groaned with each gust of wind, but it felt like a happy house.

Of course, we still had Old Charlie, but he wasn't much account.

It's an heirloom of sorts; a big old house - too much for me to take care of and work the ranch as well.

Maybe you could hire on as a nanny at Old Man Taylor's ranch.

Dad's old truck had been sitting at Mary's since it broke down.

The appliances were modern but the cabinets were old and solid.

There was an old treadle sewing machine with carved drawers and even a grandfathers' clock, stating the permanent time of three p.m.

Don't try to fool and old fool.

Cade launched into an investigation of the old truck while Cynthia and Mary caught up on the latest gossip.

I think it's wonderful that you have preserved an old way of life.

A kindly old man researched it for me.

No warrior wants to die of old age, he said.

The bones weren't that old.

His soul was … lost soon after we threw your old body into the deepest chasm in the mortal world.

Dean thought before answering, wondering how much to admit to Donald Ryland, regressing back to his old detective days.

Now, six months later, in spite of the windshield pockmarked from the gravel roads of Ouray County, it felt like an old friend.

The wind blew the entire night, creaking and groaning about the old building in a mournful dirge.

Fred had taken care of the early morning chores as Dean poured himself his first cup of coffee, dreading the inquisition he knew would be forthcoming from the old man.

Dean knew the old man was itching to raise the more important topic of Jerome Shipton's death.

I got the word from this friend, an old maid clerk who likes me 'cause I didn't treat her like shit like everyone else does.

Fitzgerald answered but Dean intervened, grabbing the old man's arm.

Dean knew Fred was chomping at the bit to dig into this caper, as he called it, but just to flip his switch a bit, Dean started the conversation with the old man's love life.

Plus, Dean thought, it would give the old man a good excuse and ample time for some world-class snooping.

Cynthia and the old man do more running Bird Song than you and I'll bet you could use the dough.

Then added, in a mocking voice, 'We were intimate, and all our old love came flowing back!'

He could hear the strains of some lost cowboy lover coming from Fred's room, a sure sign the door to the old man's room was open.

I spoke with a nice lady at the new paper but she said all the old records were in some basement.

Fully alert, he listened, but heard only night noises, the ticking of the hall clock, a slight breeze, the ever-present furnace rumbling heat to the old building.

She's weak and needs time and rest, but she has her old zest.

I want assurances from you and that horrid old Mr. O'Connor that the integrity of my family name will not be stained with unproven lies!

We don't get much chance to turn the old clock back.

Why did Shipton go back to old Virginia?

Don't mean old times are better than new times.

Mrs. Lincoln formed a pillow behind the old man's head.

Dean wanted Fred to answer the damned thing but the old man was too nosy to move.

They were both now forty years old.

I thought the old man might want it.

The check was written with an old fashioned fountain pen.

At first I didn't think so, but the fact that he had the old suicide note with him makes me think he at least considered it, if the opportunity presented itself .

He would never feed on a woman under 21 years old.

This one had that old money, all-American boy swagger that begged for something cute.

They'd make it a game night or sit around getting wasted on twenty-year old scotch recounting countless, crazy times they had through the years.

How old are you?

I have never told you how old I am.

Well judging from your art collection and furnishings at Fairhaven I would guess you're about a hundred and fifty years old.

Yeah, speaking of that, are you ever going to tell me how old you are?

I think I'm feeling a bit like a dirty old man.

Hey, how old are you anyway?

Pretty old, I have to be going now.

You know how old we are.

Fine. I am three hundred and twelve years old.

What am I, five years old?

Carmen held the gate open as the old truck sputtered through - and then died.

The shed at Hugson's Siding was bare save for an old wooden bench, and did not look very inviting.

The old horse panted a little, and had to stop often to get his breath.

He knew where the old North Church stood, but he could not see much in the darkness.

He walked up and down the river bank, leading his horse behind him; but he kept his eyes turned always toward the dim, dark spot which he knew was the old North Church.

He was not old enough to be a soldier, but he could be a scout--and a good scout he was.

Mr. Webster rode in front, and Daniel, on the old gray nag, followed behind.

When Otanes was twelve years old, his parents wished to send him to a distant city to study in a famous school that was there.

Old story-tellers say that he alighted on the back of a large fish, called a dolphin, which had been charmed by his music and was swimming near the ship.

In the old statehouse, the wise men of Connecticut were sitting.

The old man who had bought the first turkey was standing quite near.

Almost anybody could rig up an old boat like that.

When Robert Fulton became a man, he did not forget his experiment with the old fishing boat.

Find all the old men that live on the mountains or in the flat country around, and command them to appear before me one week from to-day.

But suddenly, at a narrow place, they met a very old man, hobbling slowly along over the stony way.

Until I was ten years old, my family lived in rural east Texas.

I made a terrified noise that brought Viny, my old nurse, to the rescue.

Mother and teacher and Mrs. Hopkins and Mr. Anagnos and Mr. Rodocanachi and many other friends went to Plymouth to see many old things.

The ancient cannon, which look seaward, wear a very menacing expression; but I doubt if there is any unkindness in their rusty old hearts.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated from long housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn; great trunk, little trunk, bandbox, and bundle.

And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.

To this letter the old prince had replied affectionately, and from that time had kept the Frenchwoman at a distance.

His tone and expression awoke an old unwelcome feeling.

As a matter of fact, he hadn't said that since he spent half the night with his old flame.

Seconds literally ticked away on the old grandfather clock in the next room.

I'm going back to the old place in the mountains.

Having everyone run her life was getting old.

That must make you about five years old.

Did she think Giddon was implying that she was getting old?

I always thought he felt more pity than love for the old lady.

We're probably the only roommates in Tulsa with such old fashioned rules.

She tugged the curl from his hand and turned to the old piano as a diversion tactic.

He coaxed one melody after another from the old piano, and then finally he folded the lid down.

It's about time he did something with this old house.

She settled into the old rocker and snapped on the lamp.

And that old furniture she brought here.

I mean, he's a twenty eight year old man, for heavens' sake.

You shouldn't be cooped up with a sour old man every evening.

An old sickle mower and rake with their high metal seats were the only items she recognized.

I remember seeing some pictures of Granddad on an old rake like that.

You know, Cade, there are others who feel the same way you do about the old ways.

All that wasn't bad enough, but she had to drag up that old rumor – and I thought you believed it.

They had moved the antique furniture out of her old downstairs room and put it upstairs months before he was born.

We were rolling in euphoria when an old friend from my Amherst, Massachusetts childhood telephoned with an invitation to visit her family cabin in New Hampshire.

In the old days there was a hand pump in the kitchen and no hot water you didn't boil yourself.

He's thirty-six years old and starting life over; he's an empty box.

It was a Sports Illustrated swim suit issue so old they were wearing one piece suits.

A car was parked in front of me, an old Ford.

The people were dressed in old fashioned clothes.

I started to move along the sidewalk and an old man stepped out of a doorway and passed right through me!

How old was she when she died?

How old was Howie?

How many seventeen year old virgins do you know?

As if on cue, an old car with more rust than clear metal chugged to a stop at the dollar store.

We took seats on an old leather sofa and side chair while our hostess sat behind the desk that dominated the room.

It replaced an old wooden one that burned.

She added, Most old pictures and records went up in smoke when the old building burned.

I've set up the same old power sources as New Hampshire and I managed to gather up about a third of the same plants.

Off to one side was an old fire ring but no buildings or people.

Ma won't even talk about it but I read some old newspapers.

In another case, a missing twelve year old boy turned out to be a runaway.

The child, an eight year old girl named Marcia Stonehurst, was still in bed at one o'clock.

Holdings hands like an old world family; we were committing our lives together like marriage vows.

The case was only hours old when Betsy spotted it giving us hope for the boy's recovery and the perpetrator's arrest.

It took place in Cleveland where seven year old Eric Campbell was abducted from his Karate class.

You won't know if the source is male or female, old or young, from the east or west or how long the tips will keep coming.

Forget anything much more than forty-eight hours old and anything where a nearly exact time of abduction isn't known.

This case was a twelve year old girl, shot in cold blood as she sat alone at the poolside of her California home.

The perpetrator proved to be a thirteen year old girl, scarcely known to the victim, jealous of an older boy's changing affections.

Eric was a seven year old who was abducted by a couple and held for ransom.

Part of me was hesitant to answer but something in the old man's voice gave me confidence he possessed no untoward ambitions.

The old man and child were playing checkers in the comfortable den when a housekeeper called them to dinner.

She maintained her files on an old computer used exclusively for word processing.

Howie surprised us all by buying a fairly large home north west of town on the Old Walpole Road.

For working quarters we secured a thirty year old building, recently vacated, on the beautiful main street of Keene.

During the interim we learned the sad news of the death of the Alabama Deputy Sheriff who was shot multiple times after stopping the kidnapper of eight year old Jennifer Morley.

To ask Brennan directly might lead to us so I made up a story we were checking old cases to see if someone released from prison might have returned to this type of crime.

I mentioned finding the old name of Willard Humphries and asked if Brennan could check if he'd been released.

Frankie Lloyd Cummings was a fifty year old drifter who killed teenage runaways.

A comfortable bed replaced the cot utilized in Peabody and absolute darkness proved more conducive to sleep than the leaked light that often snuck into our old quarters.

Same old, same old, if you ask me.

We've been stalking guys like him with some success for years, the old fashioned way.

The article was penned by our old Boston nemesis, Ethel Reagan.

The cover pictured a character looking like Carnac the Magnificent from the old Johnny Carson TV show.

You wouldn't need a specific date or time and you could probably find your old home, given enough tries.

She's Julie's nine year old daughter.

The eight year old son of a popular rapper named Buzz-Cousin was abducted for a million dollar ransom.

Here in dwells an old man with whom I would like to converse.

Betsy lined up two likely abductions and she was anxious to get started, Quinn had already performed his part, setting his apparatus appropriately for a rural Iowa location where a twelve year old boy had gone missing.

The break-in was only hours old and we knew the exact location from Howie's first visit.

They've got fifty agents going all over the state of Idaho looking for an old lady.

That's what they do; chase old unresolved cases.

I haven't been this frightened since I was seven years old and got locked in our cellar.

We old folks have some business to discuss.

Shut up; I told you not to interrupt... anyway, the damn thing went too fast for the old folks... over two miles an hour, I guess.

I'll go back to being good old Martha but indulge me tonight, will you?

I figured these abductions mirror some old case, and then there's a time break of a few years, like he was away.

Howie is kind of tired and the old lady, his mother, isn't doing well.

I'll try to dig up an old case file if you decide you want my help.

I was growing to love this town, with its simple history, proud of its old homes and field stone fences, telling the world it was a place worth staying.

He paused before saying he thought Howie suspected it might have been Molly's father or some old boyfriend.

Naw. He said Julie never talks about that old stuff and my guess is he doesn't want to open a can that might be messy.

The old lady babbled something to her husband about Howie, and naturally, Howie doesn't know what guy is talking about.

The old man looks at Howie like puss on a pudding and Howie doesn't know why; it's really tense.

That's the old lady who claims she's the psychic tipster but has seen God and now quit.

The poor old woman may have believed it herself.

I drove south toward town on the West Surry Road but instead of following Court Street, turned back north west on the Old Walpole to Howie's home.

It was a long conversation with the old gentleman.

I've been checking old cases too, real old ones, to see if I can get a handle on when our friend Grasso started in business.

How old is Grasso?

It was always young girls so I started looking at old unsolved cases; missing children as well as murders.

It's tough on these old cases, especially if it's considered solved.

The old man woke with a start as the woman smiled and set aside her book.

He had this funny, prissy way of talking, old fashioned-like... using big words when he didn't have to, always trying to impress.

I lined up behind an old fellow whose odor almost caused me to skip the meal entirely but I stuck with it and was rewarded by a tasty bowl of chicken soup and a fresh baked roll.

Our clerk-driver wheeled his old wreck like a big apple cabbie.

She's only four months old, for God's sake!

There can't be many that old.

She is naked except for an old tee shirt of mine which, out of my benevolence I allowed her to wear.

I'm not old enough to know how, Dusty said, convinced Talon was psychotic in addition to sadistic.

At barely ten years old, he'd been too weak to fight off full-grown men, too weak to protect her.

I'm old enough, and I'm going to protect you from bad guys.

Guess I'm just too old.

An older man with dementia left to rot and finally die in an old folks' home.

Rainy, a brooding Guardian with striking green eyes and a shock of dark hair, was his youngest station chief at a youthful two thousand years old.

Jake led him into the Gregorian mansion, whose stone walls resembled an old school fortress.

It'll get old for you one day.

It's old, maybe as old as him.

Just when I start to like you … you know, it's amazing even a man who's thousands of years old can act like a twelve-year-old.

She had no old wounds she was reopening.

Yes. It didn't hurt he's old enough that he's had time to build his power as well.

You are looking well, Zamon, for being a million years old.

She didn't recognize the two men before her, but they were dressed much like the two death dealers that tried to turn her over to Harmony in her old apartment.

Forty years old and having a baby!

She told him the news and all the sunshine left the old man's smile.

How old were you?

Yeah. The old guy who's always taking pictures.

Someone told Caleb about this old mine and this thing they swore was in it.

That's when I knew what everyone says about old mines being dangerous is true.

He was old, but not Indian-old.

Dean paid no mind that the old man wasn't in the know about the latest Hollywood styles and so informed him.

The Buen, as everyone referred to it, was located in a hundred year old structure previously known as the Scott-Humphries Building, which had remained vacant for over twenty-five years.

Dean didn't even offer a quip about Fred's tightness with a buck and his moth-eaten purse as the old man called over a waitress to do the duties.

My old man beat me like a tom-tom at an Indian dance and he didn't need that much of an excuse.

He raised the topic as much to take Cynthia's mind off Martha's departure as from any serious concern about the old man.

The old geezer is probably just pulling our legs.

The two remained that way, blanketed in the comforting stillness of the old house and one another's arms.

When Saturday's daylight arrived to David Dean's exhausted eyes, the time had slipped past his usual rising hour and voices and footsteps rattled the old timbers of Bird Song.

You'd think the old guys had found gold.

David Dean, without a remote control, had difficulty with the TV and these two old fogies were out surfing the net like a couple of Silicon Valley youngsters.

Before old Pop Dawkins croaked, those guys hardly spoke to each other.

They found some old bones.

He stopped Fred when the old man began to excuse himself.

The old man smiled as he poured another drink.

Fred just snorted, but Dean noted the old man didn't deny the question.

We used to go there to bail out the old man.

Mostly meant the old man was in jail again, or they was looking to find him and put him there.

Whatever the old man said, it elevated Cynthia's mood a few notches on the normalcy meter.

Kind of a drag, but he meant well and his old lady's cooking was something.

Cynthia's speech about Billy Langstrom seemed as old as the Gettysburg Address, but far less remembered.

Let the old guy and his lady friends paint up some signs.

The mine sits on a few hundred acres old man Dawkins owned.

Old Paul Dawkins had a California address when he bought the land.

Kiss a bunch of old ladies for me, Weller said as he hung up.

Dean had trouble remembering who was who but all were of like mind in their affection for the old man who turned up the charm meter a notch or two.

The old gals could certainly put away the suds.

The woman remembered the call because it took some work for her to dig up the old information.

I looked up the ownership but the records were nearly fifty years old.

The clothing was obviously quite old and now that it was out of its container, reeked of dampness and dirt.

The thing Martha saw had on a plaid shirt on, and these clothes are definitely old.

And where would someone get clothes so old and dirty?

If it was so valuable, why didn't old man Dawkins develop it?

I'm too old to need vitamins.

Dean was thankful they both wore old hiking boots as they stepped forward, gazing with trepidation as the cool breath of the mine met them.

It was an hour later before they saw their first vehicle, an old Scout, battered and muddy, coming out of a side trail below them.

The old photographer was surprised as they were.

In my younger days I slept on the ground half the summer, but old age makes you stiff.

The old man smiled as he stomped on the brake.

Westlake twisted around the seat once more and after a struggle pulled out an old step pump.

Cynthia looked to her husband for agreement but before he could second her suggestion, Westlake once again jammed the old vehicle in gear.

Westlake plugged forward, his nose nearly at the windshield, which was spider-webbed with nicks and cracks, as the old car crawled higher.

He chatted nonstop about the good old long-past summers.

Dean was sure the old man and his dilapidated old Scout had done this a thousand times before.

Nowadays, you'd be scared someone would kidnap a child but in the old days, no one ever thought of that stuff.

Me and Bertha here might be too old to drive all the way from Kansas, but we're still at home on these Jeep roads.

All I do is pull the battery and store the old gal together with half my gear and the next summer she's as raring and ready as I am.

Another woman, a very tall blond, stood a few paces back, a smile on her face, watching the old man.

I started checking my old man's papers and I found these reports— way back when he first bought the property.

But I sure took a close look at my old man's will.

But even old Mr. O'Connor at least had a name.

His replacement early morning audience consisted of two old ladies from Indiana who'd just checked in, Pumpkin Green, and Paulette Dawkins.

Then he added, Maybe I can buy my old costume.

Amid boxes, lamps, and glassware of every description sat the old man, atop a trunk, snuggled between the two maiden ladies from Indiana.

After a nod of her head, Paulette's hand shot up and the auctioneer all but cheered as he looked about for another sucker, his voice sounding like an old Lucky Strike commercial.

With Fred's approval, he dashed up to the old man's room to fire up his computer and do so.

Dean couldn't think of any reason not to confirm its authenticity to the old man and did so.

At least you live here in Ouray and have a business, even if Bird Song is only a year old.

Moved into his father's old house.

His old man was a miner and lived in Ouray when Fitzgerald was a kid—a snot-nosed bully, I suspect.

He's just like our old man.

Ma thought mammograms were for old ladies or women with big boobs.

But if there was an old skeleton up there, I wonder whose it could be?

So did her sister who was visiting, and the old guy who owns the gift store on the block with the Post Office.

I saw you pick up the old gentleman— the juror.

The bones are probably forty years old.

Here was this old geezer acting like I was a human being.