How to Use elder in a Sentence

elder

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  • 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 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
  • There’s the leader, and then there are these elders and people under them.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2023
  • During this time, the Amis tribe gathers to sing and dance in thanks for the abundance of the past year and the wisdom and love passed down from their elders.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 13 July 2023
  • The flag displays the logos of each of the 12 Kumeyaay bands and its design was inspired by an elder from the Jamul tribe.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 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
  • Coyle, 31, and Zacha, 26, should be more durable than their elders, who were compromised in the playoffs.
    — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
  • 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
  • On the first day of shooting, the Oscar-winning filmmaker had an elder of the nation come to say a prayer for the cast and crew.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • On the first day of shooting, the Oscar-winning filmmaker had an elder of the nation come to set to say a prayer for the cast and crew.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The other, 30 years his elder, typing fingers raw about the Padres on the other side of the Peoria Sports Complex shared by the teams.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • To find out, the researchers created five colonies where all the bees were the same age, with no experienced elders.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Charley Locke is a writer who often covers youth and elders.
    — Charley Locke, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Together we are made from the dreams of our elders and sprout from the branches of their wildest imaginations.
    — Laila Annmarie Stevens, Parents, 15 Jan. 2024
  • In the paper, one elder, Rena Point Bolton, recalls that her great-grandmother was forced to give up her dogs.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • But, like Orwell, Ross put himself through tests that his own elders weren’t demanding of him.
    — Jim Sleeper, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2023
  • One day at a time While the young volunteers keep the camp’s children occupied, elders look after the babies and pray for peace.
    — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
  • Then, as now, tribal elders handed down a death sentence to those visible in the footage, leading to the deaths of at least eight people.
    — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
  • At six years old, a Yellowstone wolf is considered an elder—only about one in five lives to that age.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The bulwark of middle-class workers have, sadly, a good chance of becoming a poor elder.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The mass shooting killed 11 people and shattered what has been a sanctuary for some AAPI elders: a ballroom dance floor.
    — Cecilia Lei, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
  • That is a theme that runs throughout the show: Young people also have knowledge, and elders also have problems.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Many tribal elders see the tent city on the sacred pow-wow grounds as an affront and the harm reduction team’s efforts as enabling.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Children are born, daughters are married off, and elders are mourned against the backdrop of Pan-Africanism’s rise and the British Empire’s retreat.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • And the book’s first part rings with memories that aren’t properly her own: stories retold by elders about life during the war.
    — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Younger generations are assumed to be more tech-savvy than their elders.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Her own experience inspired her to seek out the stories of lesbian elders across the city, from activists to drag kings to poets.
    — Keely Weiss, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 June 2023
  • While many families expect elders to cook food that everyone else eats, Nyemb-Diop says that parents should flip the script.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Parents, 27 Nov. 2023
  • When the cold weather set in, village elders tried to organize food for Ms. Gul’s family and others in need.
    — Yaqoob Akbary Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023

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