How To Use Five-year-old In A Sentence

So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
A high proportion of five-year-olds have teeth in poor condition.
She thought her little five-year-old heartbeat came to a dead stop in the silence.
Experts with Gymboree said not only adults need sociality, children from newborns to five-year-olds also need an interest in social events.
She viewed herself as she was sure Jake would: a twenty-five-year-old woman, grossly tall, apparently too clumsy to hold a book, and with a demimondaine petticoat contradicting a dress sewn for a much younger woman. Hearts

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The forty-five-year-old, who owns his own hair salon in Glasgow, had liposculpture done to his stomach and hips.
Eighty-five-year-old pensioner Lex Morris took exception to his treatment by an electricity line maintenance serviceman, but is galled to find there is no way to stop him entering his Glanmire Road property.
An able staying handicapper on the flat, the five-year-old has taken well to hurdling and has won his last two races in pleasing style.
Randle wasn't sure about the word prodigy, but "if being in the top one percentage in his age group in the planet would qualify, he's better than any five-year-old I've ever met, Canada.com Top Stories
She suffered brain damage from the car accident and regressed to the mental age of a five-year-old.
In his case it could have been as innocent as a five-year-old friend betraying him after a playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
Their five-year-old son is able to use the calendar to count how many days it is until his birthday.
What court is going to award custody of a five-year-old girl to a single man who's constantly overseas on business?
Gradually, though, I realized, that Luz, the school's elegant, middle-aged director, and modish, twenty-five-year-old Luis could talk on or join us for comida (the big afternoon meal) because they weren't rushing off somewhere. Eight surprises from a senior year abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico
Although still without a win this season, this multi-talented five-year-old has run two cracking races.
I'm wearing this rainbow-striped tankini, like five-year-olds wear when they want to dress like their big sisters and still have rainbow everything.
Five-year-old Franczeska "Cheka" Brindle, a kindergarten student at Round Hill Montessori Primary School, recently put her mother on the spot. The Roanoke Times: Home page
Now, nine months later, Richard was my lover next door, a funny, gentle divorcé with a five-year-old son in London. DEAD BEAT
From five-year-old tiny tots to the 40 plus, they moved and grooved.
The lure of beating a bunch of five-year-olds at beach football or Frisbee competitions may seem great, but it looks pathetic.
In his case it could have been as innocent as a five-year-old friend betraying him after a playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
The mayor's dismissal of this sixty-five-year-old bureaucrat marked the end of the housecleaning at City Hall.
A five-year-old boy took his family's automatic 4x4 on a four-mile "joyride" before crashing it into a wall, it has been disclosed. IcBirmingham
A Talking Picture" (2003, Manoel de Oliveira): The great September 11th movie, from a spry ninety-five-year-old who sees not only the century's long view but seemingly encompasses Homer's.
The five-year-old produced a tremendous display of jumping on his fencing debut at Warwick last month when winning by 20 lengths.
The five-year-old was born with a rare condition that means her bones are incredibly brittle, making her as fragile as a china doll. The Sun
Ask a five-year-old to ‘make a muscle,’ and he'll automatically flex his biceps.
A high proportion of five-year-olds have teeth in poor condition.
The five-year-old is unbeaten in two outings on the Polytrack surface and is trained by a man who has had his horses in good heart all winter.
Our toys are designed to withstand the rough treatment of the average five-year-old.
So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
She received many floral tributes plus a more unusual gift - a tube of pastilles from a five-year-old York schoolboy.
And, an excited five-year-old added, "I taught my brothers and sisters and my parents about the genogram. James S. Gordon: Trauma Healing in Gaza, the Forgotten Place
Reporting on the progress of five-year-olds in foundation subjects such as history and geography in a meaningful way taxes most teachers.
(I still need to get the stickers off the front; way to ruin antique furniture, five-year-old me.) I'm not easy but i'm true
Another kenspeckle figure in Scottish training ranks is Andrew Crow, whose five-year-old gelding Witch Wind did well to finish second.
I remembered the old photo of Grandma Nell holding my five-year-old dad in that open-cockpit biplane.
The photograph that Amma, the children and I chose was that of a handsome but mellowed thirty-five-year-old.
One of the children, five-year-old Stewart Weir, escaped with a bullet graze to the leg.
The five-year-old went from strength to strength after being applied with blinkers last season and emerged as one of the leading novices.
What is hot news this month in the U.S.A. is a five-year-old story to the rest of the world.
The five-year-old social network will "memorialise" profiles of the dead if their friends or family request it. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Trainer Bob Hess Jr. haltered the five-year-old Knight Skiing gelding for himself and a partner for $32,000 in Wednesday's fourth race, a 1 1/16-mile event.
In his case it could have been as innocent as a five-year-old friend betraying him after a playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
She said nearly half the business at her five-year-old gallery comes from out-of-towners.
In his case it could have been as innocent as a five-year-old friend betraying him after a playground fight. Times, Sunday Times
John, faced with a heartbreaking decision no five-year-old should ever have to make, chose his father.
His expression invited Hope to laugh at him, and she did, then joined him in a snowflake chase that turned into a game of tag, and ended with her running and jumping through the falling snow like a five-year-old herself. Strangers In the Night
This five-year-old was top class over middle distances and promises to stay this extreme distance. The Sun
The victim's five-year-old son answered a knock at the front door to a man who asked him to get his daddy, said police.
I think she has in her head a little trapeze with a five-year-old like a circus monkey swinging on it.
Rowan, a five-year-old cob and shire cross who is 16 hands tall, was trapped for six hours in a water-filled ditch at a farm.
Milo, a five-year-old ginger cat, was found in a garden close to his home on Hawthorne Street.
Although unplaced, the five-year-old ran well from an impossible draw at Doncaster last week and deserves another chance in this £25,000 event.
The five-year-old was born with a rare condition that means her bones are incredibly brittle, making her as fragile as a china doll. The Sun
A mother was driving her five-year-old daughter home from school and beeped the car hooter by mistake.
And it's also safer than having five-year-olds belting tennis balls around the room.
A five-year-old girl was maimed in the bombing.
He sounds like a slightly demented five-year-old child, while at the same time looking like anybody's mild-mannered uncle.
The past six months had been spent ghostwriting the autobiography of a twenty-five-year-old pop star. LOST SUMMER
What is it about the summer that makes otherwise sentient adults behave like five-year-olds? Times, Sunday Times
Teaching history to five-year-olds in a meaningful way can be very difficult.
After a recent Monday-evening class, five-year-old Zang Siqi rushes toward her mother, eager to show off a white rocket she has made out of paper, a Snow White sticker in its nose cone.
The bulb in the high-mounted stop light in the rear window of my five-year-old car has blown and I can't loosen the screws to change it.
Adults smiled in appreciation as a five-year-old berated her nine-year-old brother for cycling without his safety helmet.
Two styles were released after maturing for three and five years respectively in French and American oak; only a five-year-old vintage dated version is now made.
Their five-year-old son is able to use the calendar to count how many days it is until his birthday.
Their five-year-old son is able to use the calendar to count how many days it is until his birthday.
I've got a five-year-old; he's doing stilt-walking and has a little diabolo. Times, Sunday Times
I still go to wild parties - only they're at Wacky Warehouse and the guest list is made up of screaming five-year-olds.
She suffered brain damage from the car accident and regressed to the mental age of a five-year-old.
I think my favourite part of the parade was seeing a five-year-old dressed as Minnie Mouse walk the complete route.
Yet the advent of commercialism has created a series of games which sound more like tongue-twisters concocted by a five-year-old than occasions of genuine sporting grandeur.
But the Templeton's most famous baby is the young field of Positive Psychology, launched by University of Pennsylvania's Martin Seligman after his five-year-old daughter accused him of being a "grouch" and he resolved improve his outlook. Barbara Ehrenreich: The Right's Academic Universe
Witness the Swedish academy's citation, which told us that the seventy-five-year-old playwright ‘uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms’.
What court is going to award custody of a five-year-old girl to a single man who's constantly overseas on business?
Both parents counted subvocally, but long before the twelve seconds which would have justified action had passed, the five-year-old's head showed through the other opening in the deck. The Nitrogen Fix
The region has been the scene of some of the worst atrocities in the five-year-old civil war in Congo.
Estimates are that 20 per cent of all five-year-olds wet the bed.
Sarah sat on the park bench and watched as her five-year-old son confidently brachiated along the monkey bars. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
Now, nine months later, Richard was my lover next door, a funny, gentle divorcé with a five-year-old son in London. DEAD BEAT
Our toys are designed to withstand the rough treatment of the average five-year-old.
Our toys are designed to withstand the rough treatment of the average five-year-old.
On July 3 at Arlington, the five-year-old son of Fit to Fight won the Better Bee Stakes.
A judge has lifted the anonymity of a teenage mugger after reading a letter from the five-year-old daughter of one of his victims. Times, Sunday Times
There was the alphabet up on the wall, and the teacher explained to us five-year-olds straight off, how the letters represented sounds.
When I taught at a community college, one of my students was a forty-five-year-old mom who juggled two jobs and a full academic load.
A ‘precocious five-year-old’, he was taken by his mother to see The Sound of Music and fell madly in love with Julie Andrews.
It will have to be taped though I am not sure how suitable it is for a five-year-old.
In 1874, Darwin's twenty-five-year-old son, Francis, became his full-time assistant and secretary, and was a silent coinvestigator in most of Darwin's subsequent botanical research. Darwin and His Doppelgänger
One fabulously throaty chuckle from a five-year-old sitting near the front suggested it could. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this evening my five-year-old nephew beat me at a game of basketball.
Mamool, a five-year-old son of In the Wings, raced in the Melbourne Cup last year but fractured his right hind fetlock and was eased.
Research indicates that headbanging persists in 6 per cent of five-year-olds. Times, Sunday Times
Best bit of the day: "Melanie’s voice had gone sharp and hard, exactly like the parent of a five-year-old pushed to the final limit, and Wren could hear the train alarms ringing, signaling blood about to hit the tracks. The Writing Life: Stuff and Sundry
The five-year-old had been diagnosed with a brain cancer called medulloblastoma. The Sun
Now their sickly little boy, who had been in and out of hospital since he was two months old, is a healthy five-year-old with so much energy they have nicknamed him '' stuntman ''. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
However, the joy of being corrected by his five-year-old whenever he deliberately falters over his bedtime prayers is compensation enough for Altaf bhai.
A judge has lifted the anonymity of a teenage mugger after reading a letter from the five-year-old daughter of one of his victims. Times, Sunday Times
Gregory Pendleton was a forty-five-year-old assistant district attorney; he occupied the top floor of a six-storey apartment block on State Street that he owned outright. Naked Cruelty
Faisal Mahmood/Reuters Raja Naqqash Saeed, the father of five-year-old kidnapped British boy Sahil Saeed, sat inside the compound of his family residence in Jhelum, Pakistan, Monday. Asia in Photos
They got my five-year-old daughter sitting and turning all the way around while the horse was jogging.
While her five-year-old brother Ashley ran to get their mother, she managed to twist him around and stand him upright in the bucket so his head was above water.
Wire cutters were used to take the five-year-old male goshawk, which is grey on top and a cream speckled colour underneath, from a weathering, where it is kept for breeding purposes, between 9pm on Wednesday, March 4, and 7am on Thursday, March 5. HX News and Sport
The five-year-old was a convincing winner at Redcar recently and looks capable of defying a 6lb penalty.
As I headed back down to the chapel in my white kittel, the special garment that is the color of mercy, worn only on the Day of Atonement, I heard a precocious five-year-old avouch nasally, “My Barbie wins” The Barbie Chronicles
When five-year-old Andrew strapped on skis for the first time, he begged his parents to let him go up the rope tow alone.
The five-year-old has become a celebrity since her rescue from a Ukrainian orphanage, her zest for life and beaming smile winning her many friends.
Inside the five-year-old company's offices are maps and blueprints of mineral claims scouted by other firms and rocks dug up by other miners.
Martz, who is single, has two small dogs: Su-Nae, a five-year-old Coton, and Sherpa, a 14-year-old Lhasa apso and the company's eponym.
In May he'd accepted Arthur's oath of homage, had betrothed his five-year-old daughter to the young Duke of Brittany. HERE BE DRAGONS
I want there to be hammerhead sharks and bluefin tuna around when my five-year-old son grows up.
The five-year-old's last two starts on an all-weather surface, both at Wolverhampton, have resulted in two pillar-to-post wins.
A family of five that ate the dumplings was still in hospital, including a five-year-old girl who had at one point been in critical condition, a Health Ministry official said.
SARAJEVO - A five-year-old girl whose terrible wounds and fight for life made her a symbol of Sarajevo left for a British hospital after public pressure prompted her airlift by Britain and the United Nations. ANC Daily News Briefing
The branches were deliberately broken off a five-year-old Chestnut tree and on a number of occassions fires have been lit on the roundabout using firelighters.
At Easter, my five-year-old received £16 as well as a cupboard-full of chocolate eggs.
The statement came shortly after staff at the five-year-old firm, which employs 11,000, arrived for work looking grim as they awaited news.
What the royal entourage do not want, however, is further rain for the homebred five-year-old. Times, Sunday Times
What do you want to become when you grow up, was another question posed to a five-year-old.
Beador had lent her a magnificent five-year-old mealy bay gelding, called Fontana.
Ibu Nurul, 25, the mother of a five-year-old boy, extols the virtues of the IUD.
It's great as a time-filler: it's quiet, and quick and simple enough that a five-year-old can play it. Times, Sunday Times
Five-year-old cancer victim Belinda Giles was rushed in by her parents, Gill and Paul, when her temperature soared.
Its message was designed to be understood as easily by a five-year-old as by a learned scholar.
To give him his due, the five-year-old would happily sit and wait until I had finished my main course, but the little one is a different kettle of fish (something else she would probably woof down, given half a chance).
They aren't, however, in a military vein and range in diversity from the carnage caused by a marauding horde of escaped circus animals to a matricidal five-year-old.
The specimen is inferred to represent a five-year-old individual and to be at a young adult ontogenetic stage, based on a combination of histological features including narrower outermost zones, dense haversian bone, extensive and multiple endosteal bone depositional events and absence of an external fundamental system. d, Close up of the gastroliths scale bar, 2 cm. The Panda's Thumb: Transitional Fossils Archives
If I didn't know better, I'd say that local character Monstre had stuck a contact mic to the brainpan of a five-year-old tyke cracked out on Trix.
The third album by this five-year-old U.K. act has a sweet but thorny simplicity all its own, morose at times and dramatic elsewhere, with large doses of murky tenderness that skillfully side-steps syrupy slop.
As the youngest member of the school, and celebrating her birthday that day, five-year-old Rosie presented the Duchess with a posy of flowers on her arrival.
The targets require four and five-year-olds to write simple sentences and use punctuation. Times, Sunday Times
The five-year-old was born with a rare condition that means her bones are incredibly brittle, making her as fragile as a china doll. The Sun
I looked up from the astrogation table and into the curious eyes of a five-year-old girl hovering in the access hatch. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Fit from hurdling, the five-year-old should have a better chance than most in what looks a wide-open race.
There's a lot of stress—I fly all over the country going to “story hours” in library basements where I have to somehow sit on a chair made for a five-year-old's butt and read to all the little snot-nosed brats with their adorable upturned faces. Flying the Potty-Mouthed Skies
They live in great financial security in a large house where five-year-old Ruby rockets around, vibrating with life.
If Palin can have a policy “maestro” then a five-year-old with a kazoo is an orchestra. Matthew Yglesias » Team Palin Takes Shape
Returning to our clinical scenario, we would recommend that our five-year-old patient with a moderate asthma exacerbation receive anticholinergics in addition to the [beta.sub.2] agonists and oral steroid therapy.
The charity is close to the brothers' hearts who have watched their five-year-old great-nephew cope with the disease.
Any five-year-old would be delighted with a dress-up trunk containing tiaras, masks, swords, mouse-tails, feathered headdresses and sequined veils.
The listless llamas, who live with a five-year-old male llama, Murphy, and some sheep, have not left their Helmsley field for 12 months.
She just smiled and went across the hallway to their five-year-old son's bedroom.
Now, nine months later, Richard was my lover next door, a funny, gentle divorcé with a five-year-old son in London. DEAD BEAT
Although Jay admits it was a wrench leaving her family she is hoping to be joined by husband Sino, 34, who works for an Indian shipping company and their five-year-old daughter Neha in the spring.
A woman accused of leaving her five-year-old child alone in a car overnight Monday while she gambled at a Placer County casino is being booked on felony child endangerment charges.
While I may have painted a negative picture of these delightful five-year-old cherubs, I think I still made it clear that each one was a welcome guest at our dinner table.
This five-year-old won twice from three runs over hurdles in France but was bought to be a chaser. The Sun
Their obvious skill and confidence made me feel like a five-year-old, complete with Donald Duck armbands, who has mistakenly been entered into the Olympic freestyle final.
Second, the tautology that money is spent or saved demonstrates that you think that your mastery of the basics of money handling, at a level familiar to even the dimmest of five-year-old children, makes you some kind of expert. Matthew Yglesias » Is VAT an Idea Whose Time Has Passed?
Loizou, M. and Stuart, M. (2003) “Phonological awareness in monolingual and bilingual English and Greek five-year-olds,” Journal of Research in Reading, Vol. 26 (1), pp 3-18. Reading Development in Two Different Contexts:the Case of the English-greek Bilingual Children in UK and in Cyprus « Articles « Literacy News
She regressed to the level of a five-year-old and she had to be retaught everything - to walk and talk.
Grateful parents send photos of smiling cherubs playing with puppies or proud five-year-olds preparing for the first day of school.
The five-year-old is in rude health at present, as she showed when scoring handsomely at Ayr on her latest start.
Twenty-five-year-old Spoek Mathambo combines a witty, American hip-hop flow with whipsmart electro beats influenced by kwaito and Afro house. Clubs picks of the week
His little son had gone through that chaotic, uncontrollable situation all on his own, never once quailing under the immense pressure it imposed on a five-year-old.

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