Sentence examples for be elder from inspiring English sources
noun
An older person or an older member, usually a leader, of some community.
- We were presented to the village elder.
I desperately wanted to be Elder Price in Book of Mormon when it first came over to London.
Such is the anxiety of influence and such is the anxiety of revolutions sparked by twenty-three-year-olds who, when the main event arrived a few years later, would be elder statesmen.
He quoted John Donne who also was changed by a near-death experience: "Though I may have seniors, others may be elder than I, yet I have proceeded apace in a good university, and gone a great way in a little time, by the furtherance of a vehement fever".
Apparently, Kelly considers the tryst to be elder abuse.
Non-cancer patients tended to be elder, more likely to be female, more impaired in their ADL and cognitive functions, longer duration of care, and have clinic-based physicians.
"For me, I am Elder Dangerfield".
Was Elder Tiger's mentor?
We were elder statesmen now.
He was elder brother to the late Paul Wallace Brooks.
There were elder stepbrothers in their small Brooklyn home.
Until then, he is Elder Dangerfield, as it says on his name tag.
