Sentence examples for an oldest from inspiring English sources

The phrase "an oldest" is not correct and usable in written English.
The correct form would be "the oldest" when referring to the oldest item or person in a specific context.
Example: "He is the oldest member of the family."
Alternatives: "the eldest" or "the most senior".

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"I'm an oldest child trapped in the body of a middle child".

In Manhattan, when an oldest child turns 12, entire families disappear overnight.

Hawass said that although he was not obliged to do military service — as an oldest son, he was exempt, he said — he decided to serve all the same.

And yet here is the 1976 Booker winner set among a South Yorkshire mining family in the late 1930s, complete with small kitchen, moaning mother and an oldest son who snubs "yon pit" to become a writer in "that London".

To an unequalled degree on prime-time entertainment, Cosby is Huxtable, going so far as to add to the show, after the premiere, an oldest daughter so that the fictional configuration of four daughters and one son would coincide with that of his own real family.

Who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are immovably fastened upon a central figure of transcendingly absorbing interest -- the dead body of an oldest born, crushed by a shell in a position where a battery should never have been sent, and abandoned to death in a building where surgeons dared not to stay?... My pen is heavy.

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Or rebuild an old car?

That's an old song.

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