septuagenarian

[ US /sɛpˌtʃuədʒəˈnɛɹiən/ ]
[ UK /sˌɛptjuːe‍ɪd‍ʒnˈe‍əɹi‍ən/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone whose age is in the seventies
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How To Use septuagenarian In A Sentence

  • He loves football with the childish wonder of a septuagenarian World Cup winner. Times, Sunday Times
  • Speaking from her Oxford home, the septuagenarian is lustily draining a vodka and melon cocktail whilst voicing her hopes for the book.
  • Both men are septuagenarians who have felt the pinch of ageism in a business that often dismisses extensive experience and talent as irrelevant.
  • Setting sail into the wider world of fiction, he evokes a place in which missed opportunities come around again on life's conveyor belt - even to septuagenarians undergoing amputation of gangrenous limbs.
  • A septuagenarian performed the Ganesha dance with all its divine appeal.
  • The documentary follows the white-haired septuagenarian from his garden in North Carolina, to hip-hop shows in San Francisco, to visits with music pioneers in New York City and Long Island.
  • At 75, he is teaching music - both to septuagenarians and tiny tots - and is enjoying it.
  • And the film, as it turns out, is a touching, beautifully told story about two septuagenarians who, 50 years after their adolescent romance, bump into each other once more and fall in love all over again.
  • But then he tried to dupe a club of septuagenarian ballroom dancers - who had already seen Borat. Times, Sunday Times
  • The danger that elections might return a fragmented coalition is less than the danger of retaining this septuagenarian. Times, Sunday Times
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