English English Dictionary

age in English:

1. get older

2. old

My father is old.

The old cottage had only one bed, so we all took turns sleeping in it.

Old homes, especially traditional Japanese ones, can be damp and unfriendly to modern life.

Since he is old, this task must be difficult for him.

When poverty comes in the door, love flies out the window is a saying as old as it is sad.

Are you seriously thinking about buying that old car?

My twelve year old boy doesn't like to play baseball.

I think it's unlikely that Tom would be interested in buying your old MP3 player.

It's no good making the same old products year after year.

He persuaded his firm to let him go back to his old job.

Blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson would have been 100 years old on May 8th of 2011 if he hadn't died when he was 27 years old.

According to the old man I met yesterday, cockroaches can be eaten and don't taste all that bad.

Seen from a distance, the big rock looks like an old castle.

In America, you are a minor if you are under 18 years old.

Lots of old people are killed in traffic accidents every year.

3. the number of years someone has

English word "age"(the number of years someone has) occurs in sets:

WORDLIST 6 AGE

4. a period of history

English word "age"(a period of history) occurs in sets:

Smart Time 4 1a, 1b, 1c

5. age

Act your age.

Singer and actress Selena Gomez started her career at age seven on the children's public television show "Barney and Friends."

Tom lied about his age, so Mary thought he was much older than he really was.

Roger Miller entered the United States Army at the age of seventeen. He was sent to an army base near Atlanta, Georgia.

As humans age, their physical strength declines.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I love looking at everyone's colorful kimonos on Coming of Age Day.

Carbon dating was performed on the sample to determine its age.

Louis Braille, who was blind from the age of three, invented a way for the blind to read.

A working man should be paid in proportion to his skill, not his age.

Old age creeps upon us unnoticed.

I never for a moment imagined that I would still be doing this kind of thing at my age.

Can a child of her age distinguish good from bad?

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.

English English Dictionary

age in English:

1. get older

2. old

3. the number of years someone has

English word "age"(the number of years someone has) occurs in sets:

4. a period of history

English word "age"(a period of history) occurs in sets:

5. age

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