Sentence examples for oldest recipient from inspiring English sources

Nearly eight decades later, she has became the world's oldest recipient of a doctorate – at 102.

In 2014 Bowie was given the Brit Award for Best British Male, making him the oldest recipient in the awards' history.

At 70, she is a new face of L'Oréal Paris, and thrilled to be the oldest recipient of a major (and lucrative) cosmetics contract.

At the 100th anniversary celebration of the Rhodes Scholar program in 2003, Martin Wagner was the third oldest recipient in attendance.

Thirty years after he first took home the coveted prize, the 67-year-old singer-songwriter became the oldest recipient of a Brit award on a night that saw the old guard outshine music's young starlets.

In Somewhere Towards the End, the book that made her the oldest recipient of a literary prize, at the age of 91, her trenchant insights into the business of getting older are shaped by exactly these attributes.

One of the oldest recipients, David Botstein, 70, a doyen of genomics on sabbatical from Princeton, expressed some unease about the amount of money and said he would give some of it away.

The 26-year-old recipient had undergone a hysterectomy six years earlier but still wanted another baby.

"I keep Roberto very busy working, volunteering and even doing housework," writes the 63-year-old recipient of his heart.

The nine-hour operation in March 2015 allowed its 21-year-old recipient to become sexually active, and he wasted no time in proving its efficacy.

His abiding memory after replacing the injured Irwin, 35 minutes in, is Dave Watson scything through him with a challenge that split open his knee and felt, to the 17-year-old recipient, like a coded welcome to the big time.