Example Sentences

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They’re not nonagenarians — most are in their 50s and 60s — but they’re doing perilous airborne tricks, some well into senior citizenship.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

That has enraged a number of H.I.V. survivors who have reached senior citizenship.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2020

“Oh no!” shrieked a sensitive and impressionable younger friend, for whom, at 32, automatic senior citizenship seems like an impossibly distant and heartbreaking benchmark.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2016

In 2014, nearing senior citizenship, with three grown sons, 38, 30, 27.

From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2015

I adopted the ultimate signifier of senior citizenship.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2014