Methuselah

How To Use Methuselah In A Sentence

• At the end of the walk is a relic from the long-distant days when the pensionnat was a convent - an ancient, largely dead, pear-tree, nicknamed (for its age) Methuselah.
• He is offering a prize for the development of what he calls a Methuselah mouse.
• Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah, and in a yard underground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and specious buildings above it; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests: what prince can promise such diuturnity unto his relicks, or might not gladly say, Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
• Dr de Grey is a promoter of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, a competition to produce, by medical intervention, the oldest living mouse (the record holder to date, unpoetically named Mouse GHR-KO 11C, hung on for 1,819 days).
• While Star Trek's ‘Methuselah’ reforms, the Biblical Methuselah was done away with in the Flood.
• In terms of age, Armillaria is a fungiform Methuselah. The World’s Largest Organism | Impact Lab
• I have shaved a Methuselah's beard of red fuzz over that little bathroom sink.
• Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methuselah and in a yard under ground and thin walls of clay outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above it, and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests; what Prince can promise such diuturnity unto his reliques or might not gladly say The Principles of English Versification
• In the most famous example, from the Book of Genesis, Enoch father of the even hoarier Methuselah doesn't simply keel over at the ripe old age of 300 but is "translated," body and soul, into heaven. Foreign to Familiar, Essence Intact
• Seth's son Enos was a peppy nonagenarian when he begat Cainan, and he lived 815 years afterwards; and so on up to Methuselah, who set the biblical record at 969 years.