Sentence examples for had been old from inspiring English sources

For years, Bellow had been old; now, in his thirties, he could be young.

After a monthlong investigation, the federation said the gymnasts had been old enough to compete.

He reached out a hand heavy but hearty, and pumped mine as if we had been old schoolmates.

If Hanna had been old enough to write something, I'm sure she would have said the same.

Who knew?" I would have voted for her myself, if I had been old enough, in 1979.

"I had been waiting until I was old and then I realised I had been old for some years so it was a good little nudge".

Jacob had been older than the other children, some kind of counsellor.

I've been old a long time.

They may have been old but they were not good.

"We have been old for probably eight years," the 35-year-old guard Manu Ginobili said.

FOOL: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.