nonagenarian

How To Use nonagenarian In A Sentence

• There has been no such division, however, over the participation of two nonagenarians, one in Mexico and one in Los Angeles.
• It started here, absolutely," said Sir Brian Urquhart, a nonagenarian former under secretary general, recalling the birth of what he described as a sophisticated if entangled plan. NYT > Home Page
• My mother, a nonagenarian, has always had a sense of occasion.
• The nonagenarian took as his new bride a fiftysomething museum director, Louise Kertz.
• At the age of 92, the great master began work on her last major photographic project-stunning portraits of other nonagenarians.
• At ninety, Sarah was unquestionably a woman whom a modern obstetrician would call an elderly primigravida, a term that includes all women over thirty-five—not just nonagenarians. Beginner’s Grace
• 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.
• Eva Hughes had never even used a typewriter before starting computer lessons but now the nonagenarian has proven it's never too late to learn.
• In 1954, just prior to becoming a nonagenarian, Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, who had retired from the Harvard faculty more than two decades before, began a new career as a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
• Kunkel and Perls believe that additional genetic analyses of nonagenarians and centenarians will lead to the identification of a few genes that confer longevity in humans.