How To Use Elder In A Sentence

Three healthcare assistants have been charged after an investigation into the alleged abuse of elderly hospital patients. Times, Sunday Times
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As he rode along the lanes, his nostrils filled with the heady scent of elderflowers, and the air was alive with stag beetles whose chunky black bodies whirred defiantly through the dusk.
The caller urges the often elderly victims to transfer their money to a'safe' account set up in their name. Times, Sunday Times
She also finds homes for elderly brood dogs from farms in Florida.

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And the defensive midfielder hopes to fly under the radar. The Sun
There is a comic sight to be seen in some elder trees at present. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Smith hopes that his campaign will attract the support of all organisations for the elderly or those on low incomes.
We salute the flag, honer our military and are for taking care of our elderly, military and avoiding socialism. Obama invites senators from both parties to discuss vacancy
A man who preyed on the elderly by burgling residential care homes in his own village faces a jail term.
The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
Her elder sister's been acting rather funnily just recently.
Dravid was out attempting to hit a six, the ball landing with the deep midwicket fielder.
Upon the death of Charles, the third viscount without issue in 1739, the title of baronet devolved to Charles, elder son of Dr. William Graham, some time Dean of Carlisle, fourth son of Sir George, the second baronet; but it was not, we believe, for some years claimed, nor is any account of this family inserted in the baronetages of 1741 or 1773.
The adult members of society are under curfew and the elderly under house arrest: feral youth has taken over.
Give responsibility for minor decision making to the elder councils.
Spring brings elderflower, young nettles. Times, Sunday Times
Eijkman was born on August 11, 1858, at Nijkerk in Gelderland Christiaan Eijkman - Biography
It is women who mainly shoulder responsibility for the care of elderly and disabled relatives.
The evening takes the form of a memory play told by the elderly Kat, now a shoeshine boy working the streets, who looks back at his younger self.
It is frequently assumed that elderly persons lose their sexual desires or that they are physically unable to perform.
African tribal societies were traditionally ruled by a council of elders.
There were also reports of increasing calls to personal alarm services from elderly and vulnerable people. Times, Sunday Times
Post offices serve many functions apart from postal services and many elderly people cannot travel a great distance to reach one.
Then we grow elderly, and we have the greater experience and wisdom of a lifetime with which to understand.
On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah
The Times contacted two tribal elders in the area by phone. Times, Sunday Times
More intensive rehabilitation activities with chronic and elderly patients were ruled out.
Cox, as the elder, more established, and richer man, was the financial backer and often the named publisher.
Just before the funeral, the undertaker came up to the elderly widow and asked: ‘How old was your husband?’
When the sudden silence had enfolded the room in its velvet cloak, he had known that he was nothing, absolutely nothing compared to the wielder of such power.
Moravians, Mennonites, Amish, Schwenkfelders, Dunkers, and other German groups, including Rosicrucians, would flourish there.
Another organized a Chore Service that paid neighborhood kids to do chores for the elderly.
The result is that a large proportion of the elderly are solely dependent on the basic state pension, with supplementary benefit.
Clacton police have received five reports from elderly people in the area who have received the disturbing letters, which claim to be from clairvoyants and demand money.
An ineffective flu jab given to millions of elderly people last year has been blamed for a record number of deaths over the winter. Times, Sunday Times
I know they can enhance reading, especially for the elderly because the font size can be enlarged. Times, Sunday Times
If you have elderly relatives do it for them too. The Sun
In a large tent tribal elders sat on faux velvet sofas. Times, Sunday Times
David Eckstein blooped a leadoff single and scored from first on a double to right-center by Wilson, who began his career with the Mets in 1998 and is the stepson of former New York outfielder Mookie Wilson. Weaver, Pujols lead Cardinals to verge of pennant
Again, it seems pedantic to quibble about the differences between strikers and attacking midfielders. Times, Sunday Times
Atlético Paranaense warmed to the aggressive midfielder from the Minas Gerais province, only to have second thoughts. Sandro: 'I told my brother: I'll be the player we should both have been'
Often treated as a separate craft in the open shop, welders are supplied by several unions in the organized sector, such as the boilermakers, plumbers and pipefitters' and ironworkers' unions.
However, the women were furious, and the elderly man had been dishonored and humiliated.
They did not give balls, and Antonia never appeared at a ground-floor window, as some other young ladies used to do attended by elder women, to chat with the caballeros on horseback in the Calle.
A preliminary glossary of Inuktitut words relating to bowheads, whaling, and related topics has been prepared, but it is not included in the book, as it awaits verification by Inuit elders.
The problem with the young scallywags of today is that they don't have any respect for their elders and betters.
Please give your seat to an elderly or disabled person if they require it.
He visited many speakeasies, “from mere drinking dens to palatially appointed private houses where you find whole families, including children, dining together with the utmost decorum, the elders taking wine.” CHASING the WHITE DOG
The company has been accused of mis-selling products to thousands of elderly investors.
It was the elder son, he said, who just could not accept the generosity and graciousness of his father in welcoming back a lost and wayward brother.
Most people know pharma's blockbuster atypical antipsychotics Seroquel, Zyprexa and Geodon, off label marketed to kids, the elderly, the uncategorizable and the suggestible -- are you sure you don't have racing thoughts ask ads? Start Your Engines Drug Reps! FDA Panel Says Yes to Seroquel, Zyprexa and Geodon for Kids!
Here he sounds like the cautious elder, advising a sympathetic intellectualism that would open people to self-understanding.
The group is for elderly people aged 55 and over.
Nay, I know that you shall not find him in Mansoul, for he is departed and gone; yea, and gone for the faults of the elders, and for that they rewarded his grace with unsufferable unkindness. The Holy War
The problem with the young scallywags of today is that they don't have any respect for their elders and betters.
She used to play games of make-believe with her elder sister.
Chastised, Elder Brother held his tongue, turning to look at Jinju as if to seek her support.
The combative midfielder said with a chuckle: 'Are we depressed? The Sun
Two different points to consider For many elderly patients it will be decided that cardiac surgery is not clinically indicated.
I'm now researching the possibility of setting up a similar house for frail elderly people, as an alternative to larger care homes.
However, many black South African elders are living in multigenerational homes with family members dependent on their pensions for survival.
Fear of crime imprisons many elderly people in their homes.
On the night of June 11-12, a group of party elders gathered in "a smoke-filled room" in the Blackstone Hotel and made the deal that brought Harding the nomination on the tenth ballot.
Wark's job as a plater is to cut and shape the steel, while McArdle's is to put the structure in place on the berth before the welders come along and join the steel blocks together.
What about encouraging student nurses to spend time in nursery schools or elderly care homes? Times, Sunday Times
An elderly monk presented with a sharp thoracic back pain of sudden onset and shortness of breath.
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
He heard an elderly woman and a child were among residents in neighbouring flats when the fire started.
But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
General Household Survey data indicate that the major provider of care for the elderly in Britain is the family.
Pearl, her daughters, and two elderly amahs occupied the top floor. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual. See Their Worlds in Their Faces
However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
He stood behind an elderly man who was arguing over whether or not his bowel condition was serious enough to warrant surgery, or something of the like.
He surely has a better chance than of changing his controversial image - or of me being the best defensive midfielder in the Bundesliga. Times, Sunday Times
Janet had also done voluntary community work for her local church group, helping the elderly. AFTERMATH
The last is particularly common in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients undergoing anti-cancer chemotherapy.
They fail to realize that elderly people, when reduced to a deplorable state of solitude, have all the more need for someone to talk to and interact with.
So long as tutors and governesses only had to deal with their own pupils, all went well, but when the brothers and sisters were all together, and influenced by the spirit of insubordination and love of playing pranks which the elder ones brought back from school, we made life hard and sour to the preceptorial body. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
An elderly woman was standing behind him, frail and stooped, her thinning silver hair as light as goose down. AMAGANSETT
A church elder, he was convener of the fabric committee of Grandtully/Strathtay and Logiealmond Churches.
Higher percentages of the elderly than of the general adult population live in accommodation built before 1919 that is often poorly maintained.
The house was handed down to my elder brother.
His elder brother, Nails, still at school, played water-polo for the town and stole cars.
This afternoon, whilst I was chatting to an elderly couple who wanted directions to somewhere, my eyes wandered to the car park verge and espied a single solitary daffodil blooming in the late winter sun.
Around the fire, tribal elders chanted incantations.
In any case they did not inherit the doctrinaire restrictions of their elders.
The Squamscott River Wetlands Component boasts four rare plants: the marsh elder, the stout bulrush, the small spike-rush and the exserted knotweed. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
Dystonia, parkinsonism, and hyperkinesia all occur in elderly, untreated people.
The dental care of the elderly, the sick and the debilitated is a matter of great importance.
The Oregon experiment was introduced to ensure a basic level of health care for poor and elderly people.
Intent could be a factor in defining elder abuse.
So let's push for means-tested benefits, and hope that social security slowly but surely shrinks and evolves to a welfare system for the needy elderly. Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Chip Caray infuriated a lot of baseball fans this October on TBS, sparking jokes as he described seemingly every hit as "fisted," and completely botching a call in the 10th inning of the AL Central one-game playoff, when he screamed, "Line drive, base hit!" on a screamer by Nick Punto that Tigers left fielder Ryan Raburn caught before throwing home to nail Alexi Casilla at the plate and keep the game going. NY Daily News
A rising number of elderly patients are being hospitalised after going hungry, the data suggests. Times, Sunday Times
This is a play where priests are elderly and drunk, old ladies mutter curses and blessings, supernatural visions are everywhere and nobody can open their mouth without uttering a mystical insight.
Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
Council, and perhaps to implead me on the one part, and a presiding elder and conference on the other. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
Hospitalization can be hazardous for vulnerable elderly patients.
As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
And here the conquered men of Ind, swarthy horsemen and sword wielders, fiercely barbaric, blazing in crimson and scarlet, Sikhs, Rajputs, Burmese, province by province, and caste by caste. CORONATION DAY
So does that necessarily mean the young midfielder is buckling under the pressure?
Midfielders were determined to surrender possession in the early stages.
The batsman slammed the ball straight at a fielder.
It was mid-week so things were quiet; couples were lunching at picnic tables and elderly men and women were lounging around in various states of undress.
Everyone turned to see who had spoken, and there in the corner stood an elderly courtier, one of the king's most trusted advisers.
The house's owner, the elderly founder of the local wool and mohair trading warehouse, passed away and left the place to his grandson.
We've got a welder and fitter / armourer here, the welder does repairs if there's any cracks in the vehicle.
Mix equal parts apple juice and sparkling ginger ale and add a dash of elderflower cordial. Times, Sunday Times
How should the members of this informal elders council be chosen?
The thing about George Bush the elder is that if you paid enough attention to him and what he said, at a certain point you could safely assume that whatever statement issued from his mouth, invariably the opposite was the case. — The Political Revival of George Herbert Walker Bush - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Matsui finally gained some redemption in the fifth, singling home Williams from second after the Yankee centerfielder had doubled.
The project also provides bi-weekly rations of bread from local bakeries for elderly pensioners.
We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly.
And a lot of our people are elderly and a lot of them are uneducated, illiterate.
The usually industrious midfielder was virtually anonymous throughout. The Sun
Britain's Prince William, right, shares a traditional "hongi" greeting with Maori elder Sam Jackson upon his arrival to officially open New Zealand's Supreme Court, in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Fore, right!
'Vieni -- vieni qua,' Hermione was saying, in her strange caressive, protective voice, as if she were always the elder, the mother superior. Women in Love
The cloth-bound compilation shows turners, coppersmiths, tinsmiths, gun fitters, engine fitters and radio mechanics hard at work, including a large number of women training as fitters, turners and welders.
One of the chauffeurs, an elderly, apple-cheeked man, had been the Forrest coachman. DARE CALL IT TREASON
The Blue Jays say that everyone on their roster is available in trade except outfielder Vernon Wells, and infielders USATODAY.com
The thick infield grass at Wrigley Field has helped the Cubs in recent years because their infielders haven't had much range and their hitters thrived on the long ball.
Unless Celtic are given special dispensation to register the midfielder for the New Year's Day game against Hearts at Tynecastle, Keane will not be eligible until the Scottish Cup tie away to Clyde the following weekend.
The other illuminati are equally insignificant from a social point of view: Mary Hare, an elderly spinster; Ruth Godbold, a poor and hard-working housewife; and Alf Dubbo, a part-Aboriginal painter. Patrick White - Existential Explorer
The elder of two sons of two Bronx schoolteachers, Steven grew up on Long Island.
The team also needs to identify which players will serve as utility infielders.
Holliday is among several hitters, especially Cardinals such as infielders Skip Schumaker and Brendan Ryan, who have worked with McGwire in previous offseasons. Org. report: Cardinals ready to mentor a pair of masters
The local presbyteries are voting this winter and spring on whether to open the door to ordination of gay ministers, elders and deacons.
RBF neural network is used to predict nugget sizes of resistance spot welder, in which the input vectors are constructed by time sequences of cycle parameters.
It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
There were figs, walnuts, mulberries, apples, pears, damsons, gooseberries, elderberries, raspberries - and chickens, which we had inherited from the previous owners.
In addition, the Diamondbacks called up one of their top prospects in outfielder Chris Young. USATODAY.com - As rosters expand, so do playoff hopes
The Times contacted two tribal elders in the area by phone. Times, Sunday Times
The fact that someone else would make better choices than the elderly person does not require the appointment of a guardian or institutionalizing the elderly person.
Eat In nearby Boshum, the Millstream's millstream.com £50 tasting menu features roquefort mousse with pickled pears, smoked haddock and leek ravioli, summer fruit and elderflower trifle. Five great beach weekends
Of course, the kid threw up a stink, started yelling and screaming, and its elder sister had to drag it off for a replacement.
The bishop, as spiritual elder, officiates at baptisms, weddings, communions, funerals, ordinations, and membership meetings.
I've had outfielders throw strikes to the plate from the outfield wall in time to catch players well off guard.
They were ruled by oligarchies or councils of elders, or some mixture of the two, and might therefore best be called tribal republics.
Children and the elderly are entitled to cheap train tickets.
There are a few unusual skin conditions in the elderly that can cause blistering. The Sun
He goes to Bath, where Sir Walter is now established with his two elder daughters and Elizabeth's companion Mrs Clay, an artful woman with matrimonial designs on Sir Walter.
Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children. 3.
Objective To evaluate visual impairment by visual function and quality of life assessment in elderly population.
He is keen for a more holistic approach to the way the sick and the elderly end their lives. Times, Sunday Times
Most of them are elderly people coming for balneology treatment, for which they pay EUR 290 on top of the main package of EUR 1 000, said the Manager of Kur-Club, Krasimira Georgieva, as quoted by BGNES. Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
But drugs workers also report an increasing number of elderly folk dabbling in hard drugs such as cocaine for the first time. The Sun
Nassau Candy is recalling twenty-six peanut bulk products since they could be infested with salmonella, an mammal that can means critical as well as sometimes deadly infections, especially in immature children, a elderly as well as those with weakened defence systems. Archive 2009-12-01
A Gentleman refers to Cordelia in eremite terms: she "redeems inlet from a ubiquitous curse" of sinfulness so dramatically demonstrated in Lear's elder daughters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
The elders promised to keep an eye on him. Times, Sunday Times
As a result, wood-hungry chainsaw wielders have reverted to cutting the thin trees up at the 52nd parallel.
Richard was uneasy about how best to approach his elderly mother.
From that day on I was blacklisted by both him and the head elder.
He was for all practical purposes bald, with just a ring of white, wispy hair circling his skull like an elderly monk's tonsure. BLACK EAGLES
Such a concept of respecting the elders was also strongly promoted by ancient philosophers.
In an age when general staff pensions did not exist the railways might well keep elderly staff on the payroll for nominal duties.
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez is looking at Hamburg's Dutch midfielder Eljero Elia to help solve his Anfield crisis.
During all three years of our study, locally high densities of fall cankerworm depleted the preferred resource, box elder, and then ‘spilled over’ onto the less-preferred host, cottonwood.
The elderly man is quite energetic.
He remembers her arms on the cold, lifeless body of the elderly master as she sat on the stone floor.
MY elderly father-in-law changed energy supplier in December and went from using electric storage radiators to gas central heating. The Sun
Like its forerunner, the reverse tope is liable to be any depth or width; it depends on the whim of the spade wielders, or perhaps how deeply they had descended towards the bottom of a tequila bottle. Free riding the roads of Mexico
TheMelvin: All right, well how do you personally define "scrapper"? bud_is_wiser: I'm picturing a middle infielder. Undefined
The loyal midfielder missed the last weeks and will have scan on his troublesome groin injury. The Sun
Some couples choose locations that are aerobically challenging or simply inaccessible to elderly or physically challenged guests -- including women in high heels. Judith Johnson: 10 Secrets to Creating the Perfect Wedding Ceremony
That's fine, but to make the transition from pitcher to slugging outfielder is phenomenal. Ankiel's comeback has Cardinals back in swing
In the one-day game, the priority is to save every run, and it is the outfielder who assumes hey importance.
NEWCASTLE, England - Newcastle midfielder Peter Lovenkrands was taken to hospital wearing breathing apparatus Saturday after collapsing during his side's 2-0 defeat against Chelsea. Tsn.ca Top Stories RSS
The archaeological record, ethnohistorical accounts, and the memories of elders provide detailed accounts of how human life in the Arctic has always been dominated and influenced by periodic, irregular, and often dramatic ecosystem changes, triggered by periods of warming and cooling, extreme weather events, and fluctuations in animal populations [10]. Responding to climate change in the Arctic
I made out an elderly lady, propped up, silvery hair rippling across her shoulders.
An elderly fisherman wrote to a mail order house the following: "Please send me one of those gasoline engines for my boat you show on page 438, and if it's any good, I'll send you a check.
The elderly male (for anthropoids, like anthropoi, wax fierce and surly with increasing years) will fight, but only from fear, when suddenly startled, or with rage when slightly wounded. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
The bowlers were very well backed up by the fielders, and the hosts were pegged back to 19 for three from 12 overs, with Koram being the pick of the bowling with three wickets from six maiden overs.
The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
Looking surprised, a little boy peers at the elderly woman, who takes the puzzled gaze as a question.
The woman, who is believed to be elderly, was admitted to Macclesfield Hospital after she complained of feeling unwell.
This is especially true in elderly people and for hypnotic drugs.
Lacy elder flowers bloomed in the meadows.
My study of the Elder Futhark has been eclectic, though I approach them from the old Icelandic and Norse runic poems as interpreted by Kate MacDowell. Kelley Harrell: Harry Potter and the Elder Futhark
It was found by a man while he was helping his elderly mother to clear out her belongings after the death of his father. Times, Sunday Times
The elderly Thaumaturge, dressed all in grey samite, lifted Ullanoth's right hand, which had been partially covered by her gown. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The runaway car careered into a bench, hitting an elderly couple.
Closest to the fire sat the village elders and leaders, then sat the able-bodied men, and the outside of the huddle consisted of the women and children.
When Hands was introduced to the attack, the home side were under pressure with fielders surrounding the bat.
The company said tests showed mixed results for Listeria monocytogenes. The bacterium can cause serious or fatal infections in young children or elderly people.
He was ushered by Benoit, the elderly body-servant, rather grandiloquently called the seneschal, into the ground-floor room known traditionally as the library. Scaramouche
This outfielder is generally considered one of the greatest ballplayers that ever played. Five People Born on December 18th | myFiveBest
Charity was a pronounced element in the show — the spectacle of this strange young soul, in despair or recklessness, chaotically seeking occasions for compassion: taking a bath with a homeless man (“Who gets trench foot in the year 2002?!”), or romancing an elderly lady. Brit Wit
Such nonspecific inclusions have been described in the elderly with highly active disease, in alcoholic cirrhosis hepatitis and hepatoma.
He's legitimating hostility toward judges, however, and portraying the judges as out-of-control power-wielders.
Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
Spoon over your blueberry jam, cover with your elderflower cordial, and top with a sprig of mint.
“_eldern_ popguns” in Sir Thomas Overbury; “a _glassen_ breast”, in English Past and Present
The erection of a costly monument in the capital while young people are homeless and the elderly are without proper medical care is an abuse of public money, the party stated.
Ballyhaunis expectations were severely tested in the early stages of the half when a knee injury led to the retiral of midfielder, Michael Webb, and his removal by ambulance to hospital.
After long confabulations, the tribal elders told him that only the old people would act in his movie.
A great mimic of voice and gesture, Mogulesco could impersonate anyone: rich, poor, male, female, elder, youth.
A woman who watched her frail mother lie in agony after she developed bedsores at a private care home has vowed to help prevent elderly and immobile patients from having to endure the same pain.
There are few youths have sic true judgment as you, respecting the wisdom of their elders; and, as for this fause, traitorous smaik, I doubt he is a hawk of the same nest. The Fortunes of Nigel

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