How to Use geriatric in a Sentence

geriatric

adjective

• The years-long lawsuit at the geriatric Pack Unit cost the state more than $7.3 million in legal fees.
  — Jolie McCullough, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2021
• But such geriatric monster fish are rare in the wild today.
  — Stephanie Mencimer, WIRED, 17 Sep. 2022
• Gorillas are deemed geriatric after the age of 40, the zoo says.
  — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE.com, 23 June 2021
• Puppies and geriatric dogs struggle more to adapt, Tynes said.
  — Julianna Morano, Dallas News, 29 June 2021
• Weight gain in geriatric dogs increases the risk of health problems.
  — Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
• But Encore’s move was unheard of for a sleepy, geriatric brand that was limping along on sedan sales.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 18 June 2022
• While the show itself is often hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck-standing-up stressful (at least to this geriatric Gen Z-er...
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2022
• His daughter, Denise O’Brien, brought him in his geriatric recliner, along with his dog, Lucky, to the parade.
  — Sydney Page, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2023
• The bagger is the logical outcome of the cycle: an overdesigned, La-Z-Boy on-the-go, well suited to the needs of the geriatric rider.
  — New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
• Old age P-22 was thought to be about 12 years old, geriatric by wild mountain lion standards.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2022
• Once the new site is open, the hospital will use that existing space for a 14-bed geriatric mental health unit.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
• The change in the geriatric rodents wasn’t limited to their guy bacteria.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2021
• One study looked at the outcomes of hundreds of patients who were admitted to 13 geriatric wards across Paris.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
• The geriatric guise is the latest instance of people trying to cut the line to get vaccinated from the deadly virus.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
• The past few weeks have been so good to Olivia Rodrigo fans — Gen Z and geriatric millennials alike.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 3 June 2021
• But to get there, our culture first needs to get over the tendency to see geriatric issues as gloomy, while fawning over the wonders and beauty of youth.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023
• Co-ops have a reputation for being a bit, well, geriatric.
  — Curbed, 8 Nov. 2022
• Right next to Chutti, in a desert-landscaped habitat lives Indu, who is considered a geriatric elephant at the age of 57.
  — Ellie Willard, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2023
• But the series, a remake of a British sitcom, succeeded in sending up — and up and up — the goings-on in the geriatric ward of a struggling hospital.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Even the oldest of Generation X and the geriatric millennials are still young and healthy.
  — David Rae, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• That's when the idea of a prequel—and the genesis of Pearl, an origin story focusing on X's geriatric villain—came up.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 21 Oct. 2022
• Many geriatric, ill, and injured civilians could not navigate the walkway at all.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• LeBron approves of new Lakers coach Darvin Ham, a former geriatric nurse.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2022
• Animals like Buddy, a geriatric, blind horse and Mario, a 600-pound pig with a foot injury, roam free among chickens, ducks and cows saved from abuse or slaughter.
  — Hilary Howard, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• At 12 years old, the big cat was considered geriatric by mountain lion standards.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
• Locals in Seulo scoffed at the pretension of Perdasdefogu to the geriatric throne.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
• Dana Taylor: So a pregnancy in your 40s is termed a geriatric pregnancy.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 30 July 2023
• Marie Grosh, an adult and geriatric nurse practitioner, is the presenter.
  — cleveland, 9 Nov. 2020
• There’s the town doctor, who takes care of her ailing, geriatric mother, and the town drunk who, because of a tragedy years ago, has an unfortunate connection to the mayor.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2021
• Talk to friends about backstopping each other; meet with a geriatric care manager; put in a call to a helpful person from your cancer-care team.
  — Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024