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nonagenarian

[ UK /nˌɒnˌe‍ɪd‍ʒənˈe‍əɹi‍ən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. being from 90 to 99 years old
    the nonagenarian inhabitants of the nursing home
NOUN
  1. someone whose age is in the nineties

How To Use nonagenarian In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • His father, a nonagenarian, lived long enough to see his unconventional son become an international celebrity.
  • 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
  • Being blessed with many long-lived ancestors - nonagenarians all over the place - I am resigned to seeing Senile Decay as the rather monotonous cause of death.
  • Mind you, that's to be expected from a group of nonagenarians - aged, as they are, at 91, 94, and 95 years old.
  • During the evening a painting, a montage of 150 years of schooling by Badsey artist Michael Barnard, was unveiled by nonagenarians Molly Corbett and Fred Mason, the school's oldest ex-pupils present.
  • Kunkel and Perls believe that additional genetic analyses of nonagenarians and centenarians will lead to the identification of a few genes that confer longevity in humans.
  • As is the case for many nonagenarians, Ken Clark is experiencing age-related difficulties and is not in the best of health, but on behalf of his many colleagues, admirers and friends, I wish him the best.
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