How to Use senior citizen in a Sentence

senior citizen

noun
  • Senior citizens qualify for a discount at the movie theater.
  • But the senior citizen feared her nephew would steal from her.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • No kind of help as a senior citizen.
    Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The plot centers on a three senior citizens who team up to pull off a heist.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • So, there's a lot of senior citizen voters who just didn't do it.
    ABC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The senior citizens slowly rose to their feet as the band began to play.
    John Carlisle, Freep.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Golf carts have found a legion of new fans among senior citizens in recent years.
    al, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Is this program going to change views about love and the senior citizen?
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • For many senior citizens, their mailbox is a prime entry point for theft and fraud.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • That was followed by a stint as a teacher and helping out in a care home for senior citizens.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • How does the bill impact senior citizens?
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • My mom settled in, joined the local senior citizens center, and plays bridge twice a week.
    BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2018
  • How can an artist of such vitality now be a senior citizen?
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Down in South Beach, some senior citizens were not taking any chances.
    Joey Flechas and Lance Dixon, miamiherald, 7 Sep. 2017
  • For the first booster shot, just 68 percent of the senior citizen group got them.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 13 June 2022
  • The boy was a frequent churchgoer and had worked at a senior citizens home for the past three summers.
    Paige Fry, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • Many of her charges are senior citizens who are confined to wheelchairs and walkers; some of them cannot leave their homes at all.
    Allison Bagley, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2018
  • Should any senior citizen fear losing their home over cookies or a sausage link or a grab of the wrist that may or may not have happened?
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Tickets at the door are $6 for adults, $4 for children and senior citizens.
    Staff Report, Post-Tribune, 13 June 2019
  • As a 73-year-old senior citizen, that amount is expensive.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The Peach State is also very tax-friendly to its senior citizens.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Eaton says the area is occupied by many senior citizens as well as a few families with young children.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Alabama came in 44th, due in great part to the income rate of senior citizens.
    Leada Gore, AL.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • And many of those investors, the SEC says, were senior citizens.
    David J. Neal, miamiherald, 21 Dec. 2017
  • New research shows the roles may be reversing, however, as senior citizens spend more time on their phones.
    Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 29 June 2026
  • His dad was an artist who worked at the nearby steel mills to help pay the bills, and his mom worked in the city's senior citizens liaison office.
    Joe Ward, Chicago Reader, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Yep, that’s the two senior citizens running for to be the most powerful person on Earth.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 July 2024
  • The stagnant city mostly drew senior citizens, and new hotel construction ground to a halt.
    Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There’s never been a better time on TV for senior citizens to flex their muscles.
    Neal Justin, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • There’s help for senior citizens who need it, but only if their account is in arrears, Cornett learned.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026

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