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
• What is the right tradeoff between the interests of current or future employees and those of pensioners?
  — Diane Coyle, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024