aged

adjective \ ˈā-jəd , ˈājd ; ˈājd for sense 1b \

|Updated on: 10 Jun 2018

Examples: aged in a Sentence

Definition of aged

1 : grown old: such as

a : of an advanced age

an aged man

b : having attained a specified age

a man aged 40 years

2 : typical of old age

the aged wrinkles in my cheeks
—Shakespeare

3 : having acquired a desirable quality or undergone an expected and desired change with the passage of time

aged wine

aged cheese

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agedness

play \ˈā-jəd-nəs\ noun

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Examples of aged in a Sentence

a group of men aged between 20 and 30
all the young men went to fight in the war; and only the aged and infirm remained behind

Recent Examples of aged from the Web

Middle-aged adults had the largest number of suicides and a particularly high increase in suicide rates.

— NBC News, "Suicide rates are up 30 percent since 1999, CDC says," 7 June 2018
Becoming enamored of Priscilla to the point of obsession, Rebecca eventually nudged the middle-aged black hospital employee to accept her offer: leaving the hospital to work as her nanny full time.

— hannah giorgis, The Atlantic, "Rumaan Alam Ponders the Limits of Parental Love," 15 May 2018
During the next two weeks, the middle-aged Locke, then a philosophy professor at Howard University, snatched the young Hughes from dingy Montmartre and took him on an extravagant march through ballet, opera, gardens, and the Louvre.

— tobi haslett, The New Yorker, "The Man Who Led the Harlem Renaissance—and His Hidden Hungers," 11 May 2018
Shannon is a middle-aged Irish-American widower and devout Catholic who the appears to be the perfect citizen and father.

— quoron walker, Courant Community, "Local Author Discusses New Novel," 8 May 2018
The play — written by Jack Thorne with J.K. Rowling and director John Tiffany’s conceptual assistance — picks up 19 years after the events of Deathly Hallows with a middle-aged Harry sending his youngest son Albus off to Hogwarts.

— dave quinn, PEOPLE.com, "Amy Schumer, Harry Potter and Tina Fey's Mean Girls Musical Land Tony Nominations," 1 May 2018
The middle-aged former Marine, shown in one newspaper photo with tattooed arms bulging out of an undershirt and aiming a rifle, looked scary.

— nina shapiro, The Seattle Times, "Ex-Marine shot a mosque — now he’s close friends with its leader," 27 Apr. 2018
This has been another episode of two middle-aged white guys talking about young people using the internet.

— recode staff, Recode, "Full transcript: Writer Rex Sorgatz on Recode Media," 23 Apr. 2018
Seven distillers — Four Roses, Evan Williams, Jeptha Creed, Bulleit, Jim Beam, Angel’s Envy and Flatboat — were on hand to share their oak barrel-aged products.

— david r. lutman, The Courier-Journal, "BourbonVille celebrates Kentucky's signature drink with a nearly sold out crowd," 13 Apr. 2018

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