Sentence examples for elderly from inspiring English sources
'elderly' is correct and usable in written English
You can use 'elderly' to refer to people who are getting old and past the typical age of retirement. For example, "The elderly man walked slowly with a cane."
adjective
Old; having lived for relatively many years
Police believe the man - a gerontophile with a predilection for elderly women - has broken into the homes of 98 pensioners in south-east London over the past 16 years, raping four of them and indecently assaulting 24.
"Physical activity should be targeted to the same extent as smoking with respect to public health prevention efforts in the elderly," they said.
I don't think Ukip has an answer to that," said one elderly man who did not want to be named.
He said he was not going to ask working-class Americans, students and the elderly to pay for reducing the deficit while those like himself earning more than $250,000 a year "were not asked to pay a dime more" in taxes.
"We don't kill families and we don't attack women or children or elderly people".
"Elderly people are like little children, they like attention".
The company attracted criticism for a poster that suggested betting on the chances of two elderly women crossing a road before being run over by an approaching lorry.
A spry elderly man scythed emerald green grass into stooks in a tiny field.
About 50 or 60 elderly and disabled people turned up at Barnsley railway station determined to continue our campaign for free train travel by travelling without paying on the train.
Many of us were elderly, some using one or two walking sticks.
As well as suffering increased risk of chest infections, strokes and heart attacks due to cold homes, elderly people become less agile, and more likely to fall and break a bone.
