How to use "elderly" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "elderly" in popular movie and book plots

  • Then Tiresias, the blind and elderly seer, appears.  - The Bacchae
  • Hidetora Ichimonji, a powerful though now elderly warlord, decides to divide his kingdom among his three sons: Taro, Jiro, and Saburo.  - Ran (film)
  • Willa's drowned body is discovered by Birdie Steptoe, an elderly man who spends his days drinking on his riverboat and is friendly with John.  - The Night of the Hunter (film)
  • A sub-plot involves his elderly father's allowing an oil company to drill for oil in the inlet that runs behind their house.  - Louisiana Story
  • Grannis and Baker are two elderly boarders who share adjoining rooms in the apartment complex where Trina and McTeague live.  - Greed (film)
  • In a following scene, he screams wildly at an elderly lady, causing her to have a heart attack.  - Man Bites Dog (film)
  • The story begins with the reminiscences of Leo Colston, an elderly man looking back on his childhood with nostalgia.  - The Go-Between
  • Private investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the home of the wealthy and elderly General Sternwood, in the month of October.  - The Big Sleep
  • Gino attempts to get Richie out of hiding by arresting his sister Pattie and by talking to his estranged, elderly father.  - Out for Justice
  • Warden Samuel Norton meets Andy and reassigns him to the prison library to assist elderly inmate Brooks Hatlen.  - The Shawshank Redemption
  • Death takes Mort to his domain, where he meets Death's elderly manservant Albert, and his adopted daughter Ysabell.  - Mort
  • Sally runs toward the house and finds the desiccated remains of an elderly couple in an upstairs room.  - The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
  • In the late 1990s, an elderly World War II veteran and his family visit the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Normandy, France.  - Saving Private Ryan
  • In a mansion in Xanadu, a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed.  - Citizen Kane
  • A ruined cathedral remains unused, although some elderly people occasionally stand in front of it and sing incompletely remembered hymns.  - The Big O
  • He seduces and later marries her after the death of her elderly husband, Sir Charles Lyndon (Frank Middlemass).  - Barry Lyndon

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