Example Sentences

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“What it says for old fogies like me, is that the young are hungry for the word of God,” said Oldham, who is in his 40s.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024

They moved from Midtown after a realization in their old building’s elevator that all of their neighbors were “a bunch of old fogies like us,” as Silverstein put it.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

Time and sorrow may make fogies of us all.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

But in our multiple-exclamation-pointed, totally amazing, but like oh-em-gee, the worst society, this kind of over-the-top rhetoric is what passes for what we old fogies used to call “contrast” in elections.

From Fox News • Aug. 28, 2020

There, and to the utter horror of our learned and unlearned old fogies of both sexes, High Schools have existed for decades, at which both sexes are educated in common.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel