Sentence examples for old writing from inspiring English sources

"I was a very, very bad rapper when I was 12 or 13 years old, writing verses in terrible, broken English," he said recently.

He has also been on the receiving end -- one of his old writing partners named a murderer for Mr. Masius on the second episode of "Homicide".

"I was a very, very bad rapper when I was 12 or 13 years old, writing verses in terrible, broken English," he told Eric Grode in a New York Times interview.

So why am I, a relatively mature and sometimes sophisticated 61 year old, writing with so much care and attention about this fictional character who came to life the day after Kennedy's assassination?

One moment they might be making fun of an old writing trope featured in plays; another they're using that same trope both for a laugh and to move the plot along.

Well, as the old writing adage goes, "Show, don't tell".

"It was hard work being old," writes Taylor.

Undeterred, reviewers use it when they are needlessly afraid of using plain old write.

"The veteran director Sidney Lumet may be 84 years old," wrote Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw in January 2008.

Some were at least 20 years old, written when the issues were what compostable and biodegradable meant.

Another one (27 years old) wrote that it provides an additional cue and hence improves safety.