Sentence examples for child old from inspiring English sources

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The same aunt who introduced me to my xiao gu gu was the only child old enough to accompany my grandfather on his trip to the schoolteachers' house.

This week's quandary fits right into the conversation about the challenges of summer scheduling: when, and under what circumstances, is a child old enough to stay home alone?

This would be a child old enough that we might actually qualify as young or average-age parents rather than ones of "advanced age".

The worry that electronic entertainment is harmful to development goes back at least to the advent of radio and has steadily escalated through the age of "Gilligan's Island" and 24-hour cable TV to today, when nearly every child old enough to speak is plugged in to something while their parents juggle iPads and texts.

It is a plea for understanding of the refugee's plight, and deserves to be read by every child old enough to grasp it and every adult who would like to understand what it is to be young, far from home, orphaned by circumstance.

Well, of course they're not, and the child old enough to know better will laugh and point out that A is actually for the alligator eating the salad, E is for the elephant wearing the pajamas and W is for the walrus devouring the birthday cake.

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The stage of life (child, older adults, etc).

They kill children, old people, everybody".

Ordinary citizens are dying – children, old people, women.

They are targeting civilians, children, old women," he said.

Very young people, children, old ladies, you cannot imagine".

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