How to Use senior citizen in a Sentence

senior citizen

noun
  • Senior citizens qualify for a discount at the movie theater.
  • The plot centers on a three senior citizens who team up to pull off a heist.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But the senior citizen feared her nephew would steal from her.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • At 22, Wright is a Toreros senior citizen, and an old soul.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Among the senior citizen vote, Trump maintains a slight lead with 51%, to Biden’s 47%.
    Anthony Man, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • For the first booster shot, just 68 percent of the senior citizen group got them.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 13 June 2022
  • So, there's a lot of senior citizen voters who just didn't do it.
    ABC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Is this program going to change views about love and the senior citizen?
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The weight of the blow caused the senior citizen to fall backward into nearby shrubs, where the assailant on video continued to strike and kick the man.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • It had been argued that senior citizens should pick up more of the tab for their Medicare Part B coverage.
    Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 23 July 2023
  • While talking to the senior citizen, the officer smelled booze.
    John Benson, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022
  • There, on each corner, was a senior citizen holding and twirling signs like teens do to promote a pizza joint.
    Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • And my bully, let’s call her Carol, is a senior citizen.
    Washington Post, 7 June 2021
  • The couple wants to shake the stigma of stuffy antique shops that attract only senior citizens.
    Colin Campbell, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Soon, a volunteer emerges who can take a senior citizen to the hospital.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • In the movie Curtin plays a senior citizen in a small town who helps Kingsley's character hide and protect an alien that crash lands into his backyard.
    Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The township’s senior citizen’s group has more than 100 members.
    Michelle Mullins, chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Toyota's Corolla, on the other hand, is the senior citizen of this group, little changed since its last major redesign for 2003.
    Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 18 Nov. 2020
  • Something’s Gotta Give — A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Lee, 53, also points to his work earlier in the pandemic to help get food to senior citizens and loans to small businesses.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Both Carter and the male senior citizen were innocent bystanders caught in crossfire.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2020
  • On it, a 72-year-old widower looks for love again, and the women featured are senior citizens competing for love.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Third was Betty White, America’s favorite senior citizen who died on the final day of of 2021.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The shows Clay enjoys performing most are at senior citizen homes.
    Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The scam, often targeting senior citizens, has led to losses of over $55 million, the agency said.
    USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Puttering about the house, Bob and Mary often look less like senior citizens than like unself-conscious kids.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The biggest question is whether its youthful squad can rise to the challenge on the world’s biggest stage—24-year-old winger Christian Pulisic, the team’s star, is a senior citizen compared with many of his teammates.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Make no mistake, this is a pretty good car, but it is aimed at America's affluent senior citizens, not you and me.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Some people don’t want to be online or aren’t comfortable, like senior citizens, said Anand.
    USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
  • But fans of the show — and the millions who tuned in just to see senior citizens vying for a second chance at romance — know that real love and reality love are seldom the same thing.
    Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023

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