How to Use the elderly in a Sentence

the elderly

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  • The hostages that could be returned as part of the deal include both the elderly and the very young.
    — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
  • All the children of the village have fever; the elderly are sick.
    — Claire Parker, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In some years, the burden of RSV disease comes close to the burden of flu in the elderly.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 3 May 2023
  • Golf is cool—and not just for the elderly country-club set.
    — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This group has gone deeply into the field of caring for the elderly.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
  • One of the elderly marks in Kastle’s film is bludgeoned to death by Martha while Ray looks on.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • For the elderly, our phones are not an appendage as is true for many younger people.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
  • First, the elderly continue to bear the brunt of severe illness due to covid-19.
    — Leana S. Wen, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
  • The virus can lead to pneumonia, which is far more worrisome for the elderly.
    — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • The year before, three-fourths of the elderly candidates were turned down at their hearings.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • Their wives, sisters, daughters and nieces clean houses and hotel rooms, fix meals and care for the elderly.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Acting on instinct, the good Samaritan jumped out of his car and ran to help the elderly woman.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Those with stairs in their home or the elderly may require something lightweight that’s easy to carry upstairs or around the house.
    — Lacey Muinos, Health, 17 Feb. 2023
  • And while everyone from newborns to the elderly need vitamin B12, the amount varies with age.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But what happens to the elderly who still have flip phones and no computer to purchase tickets?
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • While the teen’s grandmother went to live in a care home for the elderly, Hogan was left without permanent housing.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 5 June 2024
  • Those most at risk are children whose lungs are still developing and the elderly.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 27 June 2024
  • As the story goes, singer Robert Plant discovered the photo of the elderly man carrying a bushel of twigs on his back in an antique shop.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Stores like this are frequented by the unemployed, adults with young children, the elderly, teenagers, the lonely, the homeless.
    — Kate Briggs, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Hamas believes that women, children, and the elderly should not be attacked, but something on their side went very wrong.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The practice can help collect the ballots of the elderly, disabled, or those who do not have easy access to polling locations.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 1 June 2023
  • The end of the music video sees the sick man dying in his lover’s arms on the porch of their home together, as the action then returns to the elderly farmer reminiscing on the same porch.
    — Dan Heching, CNN, 29 July 2023
  • Her mother had hired a babysitter in the form of the elderly Mrs. Sturak (national treasure June Squibb).
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Outside of work, focus on the elderly and regularly offer to hold the door.
    — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Next, inside a house, a woman and her teen daughter bathe the elderly Abuela Angeles.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Companies are setting their sights on a hot new growth market in China: the elderly.
    — Weilun Soon, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Care for the elderly has become a growing challenge in China, where the population declined last year for the first time in decades.
    — Isaac Lee, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • An overall decline in the ability to recall dreams has been reported in the elderly, as well.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The rest of the film unfolds in a bifurcated fashion, cutting between the elderly Kristofer’s journey and flashbacks to his youth.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 10 July 2024
  • The disease can be fatal for very young children and the elderly, as well as the immunocompromised and individuals with chronic diseases.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024

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