Example Sentences

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What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

But I am realizing, now that I'm in the middle of oldness, there's something wrong with me: It doesn't go in; I just never let it get to me.

From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019

The oldness of the idea was part of the sale.

From Slate • Jan. 11, 2014

I say newness, but fashion, like most art, depends on recycled and rejiggered oldness for raw material.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2011

Mr. Ray pulled an extra chair up as I stared at all the oldness.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds