Sentence examples for * been old from inspiring English sources

But he'd always been old.

I've been old a long time.

Popes have almost always been old.

They may have been old but they were not good.

Like my paternal grandfather, Ba-sidi would have been old but active.

The phrases thus cast must have been old as Methuselah, if not the hills.

Most of us hadn't been old enough to vote hardly, you know".

For years, Bellow had been old; now, in his thirties, he could be young.

Darwin's rhyming couplets may have been old-fashioned but his subject matter was entirely new.

Yesterday, investors piled instead into financial, drug and other high-quality stocks that have been old-economy laggards.

Whereas a number of former chief inspectors have been old-establishment figures who turned native (notably, former army general David Ramsbotham), Hardwick has always supported the underdog.