How To Use nonage In A Sentence
- Abr. 1863 = B.C. 154, 'Pacuvius Brundusinus tragoediarum scriptor clarus habetur, Ennii poetae ex filia nepos, vixitque Romae quoad picturam exercuit ac fabulas venditavit, deinde Tarentum transgressus prope nonagenarius diem obiit.' The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
- the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home
- The two broke free but were cuffed by police after escaping the attacking nonagenarian through a bedroom window.
- On the other hand, the mother, a sprightly nonagenarian, acquitted herself well in the interview, and both she and Ann came across as ‘better’ people as a result.
- You and I would, you know, become men and women, while we were yet scarcely more than children — We have run, while yet in our nonage, through the passions and adventures of youth, and therefore we are now old before our day, and the winter of our life has come on ere its summer was well begun. — Saint Ronan's Well
- Some statutes specify how people get married; these generally include both procedural requirements and who can get married, including prohibitions on consanguinity, nonage, and same-sex status in many states. The Volokh Conspiracy » Iowa state trial court judge rules for gay marriage:
- For we cannot deny the church of God both in Asia and Africa, if we do not forget the peregrinations of the apostles, the deaths of the martyrs, the sessions of many and (even in our reformed judgment) lawful councils, held in those parts in the minority and nonage of ours. Religio Medici
- His father, a nonagenarian, lived long enough to see his unconventional son become an international celebrity.
- In my nonage I used to carry grudges, when I matured I got even, now in my dotage I get ahead. Think Progress » McCain Attacks Blogosphere
- I moved on to read CanLit in general and made some wonderful discoveries about the literature of this amazing country and finally discovered The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence and the irascible nonagenarian Hagar Shipley. 42 entries from November 2007
