Sentence examples for age used from inspiring English sources

Debut 2012 Lorde doesn't like her age used against her, and rightly so: many of us older folks remember how fearless we felt as teenagers.

The categories of age used to be simple – you were young, middle aged or old.

Age used to dictate how men dressed.

Dr. Frieden also took issue with the age used in Intro 101A.

Ostermeier transforms her into a child of the digital consumer age, used to getting exactly what she wants.

Security in old age used to mean the family farming plot, not a pension pot.

Reporters in a more cynical age used to say that a byline and a dime would get you a cup of coffee.

She added, however, that her children, now of middle age, used to go up there quite a bit.

It's as if as a child he had heard — and heeded — the call of the female attendants for National Airlines who, in the gilded flying age, used to purr, "Fly Me".

The left one, of Picasso in his 20s, refashions his self-portrait from 1906 – whose African influences mark the start of what European art historians, in a less enlightened age, used to call his époque nègre.

Bryan Ferry's 2012 album The Jazz Age used it as a creative prop – casting the louche and urbane melancholy of latter-day Roxy Music songs back to the 1920s (and some of it isn't bad).