How to Use the aged in a Sentence

the aged

noun
  • Guests mixed the aged bourbons and ryes to their preferred style and strength.
    — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
  • My job was to protect the aged and disabled — people just like my father.
    — Shannon Carpenter, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The gunite pool liner blends nicely with the aged look of the pool house and patio.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But what of the scenes that opened the episode showing the aged Blackthorne in England?
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
  • There is scant evidence of the man himself —only one portrait of the aged lothario is on display.
    — Gaile Robinson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Though this habitat may seem like a utopia, the aged animal still faced adversity.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Choose from the aged antique brass finish or opt for an industrial look with the silvery-bronze finish.
    — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The second image was even more dramatic, giving a full-body look at the aged prosthetics.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Snag the aged brass or polished nickel to round out your contemporary bathroom design.
    — Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Ultimately, though, the team went in a different direction and skipped the aged makeup and gray hair.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 9 May 2024
  • The reactions to the aged filter can be partitioned off into a three categories.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune Well, 15 July 2023
  • Fifty years later, the Crown was reintroduced as a replacement for the aged Avalon.
    — New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Critics of the deal, of whom there have been many, figure the aged Penguins only grew older with Karlsson.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Then two grandsons and, at the center, the aged mother—Ma, Mata ji, Amma.
    — Anjum Hasan, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Although most regional heads of state are long in the tooth, gone are the days where Gulf leadership is entirely the domain of the aged.
    — Becca Wasser, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2016
  • These include rebuilding that stretch of the aged seawall and raising it several feet in response to long-term forecasts of sea level rise.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Solution If your plant seems healthy other than a brown leaf or two, trim off the aged leaf and take it as a sign of your plant’s natural growing cycle.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The additional standard deduction per person for the aged or the blind will be $1,600.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Kevin Shattenkirk, the aged free agent acquired to fill Clifton’s roster spot, won’t be assuming Clifton’s hitting shoes.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Feel free to mix wood furniture from various eras or in different styles; the aged appearance will tie an assortment of pieces together.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • When a forest fire rages through the countryside, two sisters and the daughter of the aged family maid have to confront and reconcile their differences.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Once the aged mice received the reprogramming therapy, however, the genes in their muscle and kidney cells began working like those in young mice.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Truth knew former slaves had no retirement plans and that the aged and infirm were particularly vulnerable to neglect.
    — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • New York City had some success with subway ads asking riders to offer their seats to the aged, pregnant and disabled and to stop with the man-spreading.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In today’s service economy, governments need to spend more on health care and caring for the aged, areas in which the state has naturally played a central role.
    — Joseph E. Stiglitz, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Now and many generations later, Pickett Chapel continues to shake loose from disrepair as old gives way to a gleam like white hair on the aged.
    — Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Only the aged Lotus Elise matched it in terms of its size and weight, and nothing in the sports car world gave you a complete carbon fiber chassis for anything near its price.
    — Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 11 July 2024
  • The spirit is double distilled in copper pot stills and the aged expressions are matured in new American and French oak barrels.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Then there is Thelma, which avoids potential pitfalls and parody to offer a truly original and funny take on aging, and those who care for the aged.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2024
  • As the aged mom, Megan Mulally does her whole performance with a kind of an elderly lisp thing, albeit with moments of belting breaking through that.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023

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