ADJECTIVE
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belonging to or lasting from times long ago
age-old customs
the antique fear that days would dwindle away to complete darkness
How To Use age-old In A Sentence
- In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
- It solves an age-old problem for makers of sterling silver. Times, Sunday Times
- Writing letters to Santa Claus is an age-old Christmas tradition for children all over the world. The Magic of Macy’s « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting
- Britain has an age-old tradition of Euro scepticism that goes back to well before the Second World War.
- At least drinking a herbal brew gets around that age-old question of whether to put the milk in first or last. Times, Sunday Times
- If we raise this money now, we will be preventing future generations from suffering this age-old scourge.
- The struggle between abundance and abjection is an age-old story that has left physical and psychic scars on the watery landscape of the Delta.
- The age-old institution is closing forever next Tuesday due to lack of funds.
- In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
- Bohr may be thought to have got perilously close to this when he suggested that complementarity could shed light on the age-old question of determinism and free will in relation to human nature.