Sentence examples for only as old from inspiring English sources

Published in the autumn of 2010, "Room" is narrated by a five-year-old boy named Jack who, along with his twenty-six-year-old mother — "Ma" — is imprisoned in a one-room structure by a man referred to only as Old Nick.

Grandma was right: you're only as old as you feel.

"They say you're only as old as your face".

San Pacho, she told me, was only as old as she was — forty-five.

Mr. Kramer said his doctors told him, "You're only as old as your liver".

Most likely to say: You're only as old as you feel.

"Beautiful!" we say, though we can see that it is not only just as old as before but still quite dirty.

Conventional practitioners likewise recognize that "alternative" questions are not only important but as old as philosophy itself, such as questions about wisdom and the social transmission of virtues.

If proteasomes have never been lost from free-living bacteria, they evolved only in the immediate common ancestor of Actinomycetales, and thus may be only half as old as actinobacteria.

But in reality, mainstream personal computers are only about as old as a recent college grad.

The term was first used about 400 years ago, but the earliest known example seems to be only half as old.