How to Use aged in a Sentence

aged

adjective
  • The middle-aged couple next to us is in the midst of a three-hour-long make-out session.
    Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Better to used coarse, aged wood mulch than fresh chips.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • That left only Robyn, the hot young brunette who was by now middle-aged, and...
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Wrapped in a hazmat suit, she's led to the corpse of a middle-aged woman with a gnarly bite on her left leg.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Other rums are aged and then filtered to remove the color—and in the process, a lot of the flavor as well.
    Tony Sachs, Robb Report, 2 June 2023
  • And amazingly, more than a third of those streams came from young people aged 18 to 24.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The dumbstruck crowd watched as aged captain Patrice Bergeron trudged to the room in the funeral din of the Garden.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • So these homeowners set the brick in sand, rather than concrete, to give a relaxed and aged look.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The room filled with laughter and swapped gossip over plates of aged toma-hawk, Dover sole, and Limone pasta topped with caviar.
    Ian Malone, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Radiation was found to be the treatment method that aged patients the fastest.
    Lauryn Higgins, Health, 27 July 2023
  • Middle-aged in his mid 30s, he’s had a crazy life and may be the world’s most famous manatee.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Then in May her mother-in-law — the Queen of Rock and Roll — also died, aged 83, after years of battling health issues.
    Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
  • In a small study of middle-aged women, one group swam a total of three hours a week for 12 weeks and saw decreases in body fat.
    Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Its mission is to help the poor, the imprisoned, the destitute, the hungry, the aged and victims of disaster.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Sporting the pencil-thin ponytail of a middle-aged woman?
    Jenny Wu, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • All woodcock can be aged and sexed by looking at the characteristics of the wing.
    Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • If this were stirred, like the Rosita, perhaps the vanilla richness of an aged tequila would be better.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2023
  • His late father spent his holiday paycheck on a six-string for his son, then aged 13.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 1 May 2023
  • Middle-aged goths with mortgages and children and cabins in New Hampshire gossiped about the past.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2023
  • It's named in commemoration fo the year tequila was first aged in oak casks.
    Mike Darling, Men's Health, 13 June 2023
  • The clip, which runs just nineteen seconds, shows a middle-aged white man and two teen-age Black boys, facing a camera in a classroom.
    Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The scent is grounded with tobacco, aged leather and vetiver.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • But her design eye was set on the brand’s unlacquered brass, a warm inviting metal with a rich aged patina.
    By sunset, Sunset Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The main food items are aged cheddar, artisan crackers, and almonds.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And McConnell’s scary moment wasn’t the only sign this week of the risks of electing — and reelecting — aged lawmakers.
    Cameron Joseph, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Bone-in cuts include the ribeye cowboy cut, wagyu strip, roasted rack of lamb, porterhouse ad a dry-aged long-bone ribeye.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2022
  • This Cognac was aged in French oak, with a small amount of the blend also matured in Sauternes wine barrels, bringing it to the sweeter side of the flavor spectrum.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Jenner covered her chest with one arm across her body and had a bottle of her aged Anejo tequila in her other hand.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This menu will offer selections of aged beef and sustainable seafood from both the local region and oceans afar.
    Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Cara Graper had a talk with her then-kindergarten aged son a few years ago that put the prevalence of gun violence in perspective.
    Jared Quigg, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2023

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