How to Use geriatric in a Sentence

geriatric

1 of 2 noun
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  • The geriatric among us were already working (or trying to) when the Great Recession hit.
    — Sara Rathner Nerdwallet, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • It's just become a sport for the geriatric and anyone with a few million followers on social media who can throw a punch.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Kozar, who is applying to medical schools, said the program helped steer her toward a career in geriatrics.
    — Pat Eaton-Robb, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The Red Hound of Renown, as he was called in some circles, was a consummate fetch dog, a powerful swimmer and, in his later years, a brazen geriatric with a bottomless bucket list.
    — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Afterward, two ladies channeling Mr. and Mrs. Schumacher (the film’s infamous wallet-lifting geriatrics) led the way, with a feigned, aged saunter, towards the barn.
    — Katie Calautti, vanityfair.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Great, so people who sit on the job turn into bedridden geriatrics, while those who stand in the office might as well be eating nothing but double cheeseburgers, or going through a pack a day, or maybe both.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Women are having kids at a later age these days, and a pregnancy is generally considered geriatric after the age of 35.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The latest iteration provides filters that turn users either into smooth-faced baby versions of themselves or wrinkly geriatrics with a smattering of sun spots and gray hair.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 17 July 2019
  • But there are some advantages to thinking of aging as a disease, according to Louise Aronson, a doctor specializing in geriatrics and author of the new book Elderhood.
    — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 27 June 2019
  • The core of geriatrics is function, and efforts to preserve functional abilities are the most strongly associated with better health outcomes and longevity across the lifetime.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
  • Other geriatric care managers are social workers or have other degrees related to geriatrics.
    — Alix Boyle, courant.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • However, this may cause severe intestinal problems if your dog is very young, immunocompromised, and geriatric.
    — Doggie Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Yet geriatrics is badly scanted in standard medical training.
    — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Like many nursing programs around the country seeking to address the shortage of nursing personnel able to care for the growing senior population, the nursing school at St. Thomas has added a clinical experience in geriatrics into their program.
    — Alice Adams, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The hospital has begun converting existing space that had not previously been devoted to patient care into 17 inpatient rooms for adults and 12 geared toward geriatrics.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 17 Feb. 2017
  • Another pilot project, conducted by Dr. Sara Espinoza, associate professor of medicine (geriatrics), examined the effects of a diabetes drug called Metformin in senior adults.
    — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 31 May 2018
  • Now Gove’s remark became the source of the ashen taste in the mouths of Remoaner metropolitan elites bewailing how provincial troglodytes, geriatrics, and Little Englanders had dashed their rationalist, internationalist dreams.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Some states in America, including Alabama, California and Georgia, have geriatric-release laws.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2020
  • Outpatient psychiatry and psychology office, and a specialized gene geriatric treatment unit.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Hopkins was ranked nationally in 15 specialties, including being ranked No. 1 in geriatrics, neurology & neurgosurgery, and rheumatology, and No. 2 in nephrology and urology.
    — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 30 July 2019
  • There are sweatshirt-wearing college students, cantankerous geriatrics, bedraggled parents of toddlers, hipsters with multiple facial piercings and purple-haired 20-somethings of indeterminate gender.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • High performing specialties include geriatrics, nephrology, neurology & neurosurgery, orthopedics, and pulmonary and lung services.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 30 July 2019
  • The geriatric among us were already working (or trying to) when the Great Recession hit.
    — Sara Rathner Nerdwallet, Star Tribune, 10 July 2021
  • It's just become a sport for the geriatric and anyone with a few million followers on social media who can throw a punch.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Kozar, who is applying to medical schools, said the program helped steer her toward a career in geriatrics.
    — Pat Eaton-Robb, Fox News, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The Red Hound of Renown, as he was called in some circles, was a consummate fetch dog, a powerful swimmer and, in his later years, a brazen geriatric with a bottomless bucket list.
    — Greg Trotter, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • Afterward, two ladies channeling Mr. and Mrs. Schumacher (the film’s infamous wallet-lifting geriatrics) led the way, with a feigned, aged saunter, towards the barn.
    — Katie Calautti, vanityfair.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Great, so people who sit on the job turn into bedridden geriatrics, while those who stand in the office might as well be eating nothing but double cheeseburgers, or going through a pack a day, or maybe both.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Women are having kids at a later age these days, and a pregnancy is generally considered geriatric after the age of 35.
    — Expert Panel, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The latest iteration provides filters that turn users either into smooth-faced baby versions of themselves or wrinkly geriatrics with a smattering of sun spots and gray hair.
    — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, 17 July 2019
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geriatric

2 of 2 adjective
  • The years-long lawsuit at the geriatric Pack Unit cost the state more than $7.3 million in legal fees.
    — Jolie McCullough, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2021
  • But such geriatric monster fish are rare in the wild today.
    — Stephanie Mencimer, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Gorillas are deemed geriatric after the age of 40, the zoo says.
    — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2021
  • Puppies and geriatric dogs struggle more to adapt, Tynes said.
    — Julianna Morano, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
  • Weight gain in geriatric dogs increases the risk of health problems.
    — Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • But Encore’s move was unheard of for a sleepy, geriatric brand that was limping along on sedan sales.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 18 June 2022
  • While the show itself is often hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck-standing-up stressful (at least to this geriatric Gen Z-er...
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2022
  • His daughter, Denise O’Brien, brought him in his geriatric recliner, along with his dog, Lucky, to the parade.
    — Sydney Page, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
  • The bagger is the logical outcome of the cycle: an overdesigned, La-Z-Boy on-the-go, well suited to the needs of the geriatric rider.
    — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Old age P-22 was thought to be about 12 years old, geriatric by wild mountain lion standards.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2022
  • Once the new site is open, the hospital will use that existing space for a 14-bed geriatric mental health unit.
    — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The change in the geriatric rodents wasn’t limited to their guy bacteria.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2021
  • One study looked at the outcomes of hundreds of patients who were admitted to 13 geriatric wards across Paris.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • The geriatric guise is the latest instance of people trying to cut the line to get vaccinated from the deadly virus.
    — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The past few weeks have been so good to Olivia Rodrigo fans — Gen Z and geriatric millennials alike.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 3 June 2021
  • But to get there, our culture first needs to get over the tendency to see geriatric issues as gloomy, while fawning over the wonders and beauty of youth.
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Co-ops have a reputation for being a bit, well, geriatric.
    — Curbed, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Right next to Chutti, in a desert-landscaped habitat lives Indu, who is considered a geriatric elephant at the age of 57.
    — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2023
  • But the series, a remake of a British sitcom, succeeded in sending up — and up and up — the goings-on in the geriatric ward of a struggling hospital.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Even the oldest of Generation X and the geriatric millennials are still young and healthy.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • That's when the idea of a prequel—and the genesis of Pearl, an origin story focusing on X's geriatric villain—came up.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Many geriatric, ill, and injured civilians could not navigate the walkway at all.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
  • LeBron approves of new Lakers coach Darvin Ham, a former geriatric nurse.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
  • Animals like Buddy, a geriatric, blind horse and Mario, a 600-pound pig with a foot injury, roam free among chickens, ducks and cows saved from abuse or slaughter.
    — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • At 12 years old, the big cat was considered geriatric by mountain lion standards.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Locals in Seulo scoffed at the pretension of Perdasdefogu to the geriatric throne.
    — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • Dana Taylor: So a pregnancy in your 40s is termed a geriatric pregnancy.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
  • Marie Grosh, an adult and geriatric nurse practitioner, is the presenter.
    — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2020
  • There’s the town doctor, who takes care of her ailing, geriatric mother, and the town drunk who, because of a tragedy years ago, has an unfortunate connection to the mayor.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
  • That building already holds a geriatric psychiatric unit, and plans are underway to dedicate the whole building to mental health care.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2023

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