How to Use ager in a Sentence

ager

noun

• My friend Deirdre had made it for herself at camp as a teen-ager.
  — Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
• That doesn’t mean all of your favorite anti-agers are fair game though.
  — Danielle Blundell, Women's Health, 28 Mar. 2023
• There were ten teen-agers who’d travelled from around the country with their dads.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
• Most of the super agers are very active and maintain healthy habits.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• How many untrained teen-agers got asked to audition twice?
  — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Some smaller fish only benefit from a few days in the dry ager.
  — Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 30 July 2024
• Like many of the fair’s venders, Sweet Martha’s is largely staffed by teen-agers.
  — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• As a teen-ager, Andrew was dogged by a feeling of unease.
  — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
• The women watch as teen-agers dressed for the occasion fill the hotel’s bar.
  — Anna Russell, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
• The teen-agers, all of whom were Black, all told the same story of their whereabouts that evening.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
• Compared with people with Alzheimer’s, super-agers had two and a half times as many.
  — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 26 Feb. 2026
• Teen-agers born thirty years after the end of his father’s reign were shot and killed for chanting his name.
  — Azadeh Moaveni, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
• Women who had at least one cup of coffee daily were more likely to be among the healthy agers, the study found.
  — Renée Onque, CNBC, 20 June 2025
• The health data that met these requirements was sorted into a healthy agers group.
  — New Atlas, 22 June 2025
• Some solo agers are widowed, or never married.
  — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• One of the four teen-agers shot by Bernie Goetz receives aid on the 2 express train.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• The point of this is to persuade teen-agers from all over the country to choose Alabama.
  — Jeffrey Selingo, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2025
• His three kids, all teen-agers, attend a private school in Miami.
  — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
• These fast agers were also 40% more likely to die within this window of time.
  — New Atlas, 9 July 2025
• Stephen Lawrence was a black teen-ager who was murdered by a gang of white racists in 1993.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
• When one of the lab’s slides goes under a microscope, the ager zooms in on the long vertical edge of the tooth root.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 28 Sep. 2023
• Those years my dad was a bit of a dad-ager, carting around our gear, setting up my drum kit, running our sound system and the like.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 12 July 2022
• Researchers suspect that super-agers may be born with a higher number of these neurons.
  — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Aug. 2025
• Jacob leans more into that mom-ager aspect in an interesting way.
  — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
• What struck me as incredible about this, when Jason told me the next day, was that a grownup would call a teen-ager.
  — Akhil Sharma, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
• Not much time passes before the teen-ager disappears, just like Madison.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
• The defense’s most potent witness turned out to be James Ramseur, one of the four teen-agers.
  — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• An exception is a pair of teen-agers whose reflections on their concord are among the most beautiful in the book.
  — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
• As teen-agers, the sisters conspired to get jobs in a cafeteria in nearby Pripyat.
  — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
• This was a bit of whimsy on her part, though as a teen-ager he’d once been arrested for smoking marijuana on the street.
  — Joan Silber, New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2025