How to Use pensioner in a Sentence

pensioner

noun
  • Some of the biggest losers are South Africa’s pensioners.
    Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2017
  • Cities will have to make deals on benefit cuts for pensioners in order to spend more on schools.
    Washington Post, Orange County Register, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Vitaly Kolesnichenko, a pensioner awaiting transport this week, sat on a bench with a sports bag filled with his clothes.
    Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 8 June 2022
  • Next door, pensioners gather under a portrait of the Virgin Mary, waiting for a free bowl of soup and bread.
    Madeline Roache / Puhoi, Time, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Young, fit people might embrace the idea of cycling to work, but pensioners with arthritic hips or plumbers with heavy tools might not see things the same way.
    Roger Trapp, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Groups are capped to 20 and run the gamut from families to millennials, and even pensioners.
    Julia Buckley, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Haider would show up to any shop opening to give a speech, sing homecoming songs with the men’s choir and hand out 100 Euro bills to mothers and pensioners.
    Josephine Huetlin, The New Republic, 25 June 2018
  • One piece of good news is that China is thinking creatively about how to look after the swelling ranks of pensioners.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • In Dobrusa, most of those who remained were pensioners.
    New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • In January, a boar bit a pensioner in the leg — the day after another boar made off with a schoolgirl’s pink school bag.
    New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In 2012, he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for being a member of a gang that attacked lonely pensioners.
    Karel Janicek, The Seattle Times, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Natalia Dema, a pensioner in her 60s wearing a light-blue jacket and work boots, joined her.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • These are parties of young and middle-aged workers, not cheery pensioners.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Alphabet, shy at first, soon came into his own as a lazy pensioner.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Data show more than 77 percent of pensioners came back under the same job title.
    Lauryn Schroeder, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 May 2017
  • The pensioner spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid repercussions.
    Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 27 June 2023
  • Claúdio Arantes, a pensioner, carried an old Lula campaign flag on his way to the esplanade.
    Mauricio Savarese and Carla Bridi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Since then, Tania Nikolayevna, a pensioner in her sixties, has reckoned with that loss.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The pension portion of the debt will not be restructured which means every pensioner is supposed to received what they were promised.
    Cristina Corujo, ABC News, 6 Feb. 2022
  • The 2018 budget plans has drawn fire from Mr. Macron’s rivals on the left and the right, and even from pensioners who are organizing demonstrations in Paris Thursday.
    William Horobin, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Michael Dietrich Düllmann, a 76-year-old pensioner, is hoping to fix that.
    Jasper Bastian, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Inflation has shrunk the value of the Cuban peso so much that most state pensioners now receive the equivalent of $8 a month in the local currency.
    Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Now after three years of warnings, citations and complaints, the Garfield Heights pensioner is facing jail time.
    Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2019
  • On a recent weekday, pensioners wintering nearby were among the few visitors to the launch site.
    The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
  • As a result, Greece now has only 1.7 workers for every one pensioner.
    Stathis N. Kalyvas, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2016
  • During the service, the pensioner with a powder-blue headscarf helps light and extinguish prayer candles.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
  • There had always been a few people around town, mostly pensioners, who were openly pro-Russian.
    James Verini Paolo Pellegrin, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The coach was carrying a bus full of pensioners on a trip, the regional Sud Ouest newspaper reported.
    Team, Newsweek, 23 Oct. 2015
  • But there are high hurdles to clear for any enterprising lawyer looking to bring such a suit on behalf of a citizen or pensioner.
    Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Under it, foreign pensioners’ individual income (from non-Italian sources) is taxed at a 7% flat rate for up to 10 years.
    Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

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