Sentence examples for oldest standing from inspiring English sources

In Panama City's oldest standing neighborhood, the rooftops are bright red.

Take the Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest standing European fort in North America.

The state's oldest standing Methodist church is there, as is the original capitol building and several early 19th-century houses.

Stephen likewise had a hand in preserving the beautiful Biserica Dragos Voda, said to be Romania's oldest standing wooden church, built in 1346.

(Wilson Tang, a co-owner and the proprietor of Nom Wah, New York's oldest standing dim-sum parlor, helped secure the lease).

First lighted in 1764, it claims to be the country's oldest standing lighthouse; Boston Light was built earlier but was destroyed during the Revolutionary War and rebuilt.

The 17-year-old, standing alone in the dock, appeared bewildered.

I was nearly 12 years old, standing in Woolworths with my pocket money, about to buy a Kylie Minogue record.

"It is a very calm peaceful area," said one 17-year-old, standing in her parents' shop.

Returning home on Thursday afternoon, I was stopped by two 10-year-olds standing at the top of my road.

"It gives me a surprise to see these little children, 14 or 16 years old, standing outside the club listening to our music," he said.