Explore Oldest through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Oldest meaning
superlative form of old: most old
Using Oldest
- The main meaning on this page is: superlative form of old: most old
- In the example corpus, oldest often appears in combinations such as: the oldest, oldest and, second oldest.
Context around Oldest
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oldest
- In this selection, "oldest" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, third, fifth, next, person, player and living stand out and add context to how "oldest" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the oldest continuous family, and the oldest man to, oldest person, oldest child and world oldest. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oldest" sits close to words such as olympic, gathering and muslim, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oldest
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pennsylvania has the nation's fourth-oldest residents, and this district is the second oldest. (15 words)
If not the oldest, it is one of the oldest buildings in Bolivar, built in 1851. (16 words)
Rikka Valila, 44, became Finland’s oldest Winter Olympian and the oldest Olympic women’s hockey player. (17 words)
A blogger from Itajuipe reportedly heard about Jose's story and is now working to gather all the relevant information needed to present the OAP as the world's oldest living person and the oldest man to have ever lived to the Guinness World Records. (45 words)
Then she would go to the Maryland/Washington D.C. area to visit with my cousin Irene (and her husband George and their son David), Tom, my oldest brother, and Toki, my oldest sister, who was like a back-up mom to the younger children. (45 words)
He holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest professional player to score a competitive league goal, and in March 2017 he became the oldest player to appear in a professional match, surpassing Englishman Stanley Matthews’ old record. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Chances are that Mazibuko was indeed the oldest person living, and perhaps even the oldest person of all time.
Constructed between 1638 and 1643, the C. A. Nothnagle Log House is believed to be the oldest log cabin in the country and the oldest surviving building in New Jersey.
It is one of the oldest written languages and like Chinese one of the oldest languages still spoken and written today.
Lansdowne Road Stadium was one of the oldest international rugby venues in the world, and it hosted two of Ireland’s best-known and oldest rugby clubs, Lansdowne FC and Wanderers FC.
At the time of her death, Ms Francis was the oldest living person in the US and the third-oldest person in the world, according to LongeviQuest.
Kelly’s Logan House is both the oldest Irish bar in Delaware and the oldest, continuous family-owned Irish bar in the country.
Merseyside's historical breweries like Cains and Higsons no longer make beer, which means Southport is now the oldest still operating, with Wirral's the second oldest at 18 years.
The news outlet noted that at 5,600 years old, the temples are the world's oldest remains of a free-standing building and the world's second oldest religious building.
He holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest professional player to score a competitive league goal, and in March 2017 he became the oldest player to appear in a professional match, surpassing Englishman Stanley Matthews’ old record.
McCown became the oldest player in NFL history to make his postseason debut and the fifth-oldest player in the league this season.
According to the Oldest in Britain website, the title of the oldest person is now understood to be passed to 111-year-old Dorothy Payne, of Sevenoaks, Kent, who was born on August 5, 1907.
If not the oldest, it is one of the oldest buildings in Bolivar, built in 1851.
Now, aged 49, Avis is one of the oldest performers in the company, and probably the oldest performing man in ballet.
The magazine itself has been around for 191 years in Britain, making it one of the oldest, if not the oldest continuously, published magazine in the English-speaking world.
The Siberian canid's transcriptome is the oldest RNA sequenced by far, surpassing the next oldest transcriptome by at least 13,000 years.
The Yonkers marathon has a special place in U.S. road racing as it is the second oldest marathon, Boston being the oldest.
A blogger from Itajuipe reportedly heard about Jose's story and is now working to gather all the relevant information needed to present the OAP as the world's oldest living person and the oldest man to have ever lived to the Guinness World Records.
Pennsylvania has the nation's fourth-oldest residents, and this district is the second oldest.
Rikka Valila, 44, became Finland’s oldest Winter Olympian and the oldest Olympic women’s hockey player.
Then she would go to the Maryland/Washington D.C. area to visit with my cousin Irene (and her husband George and their son David), Tom, my oldest brother, and Toki, my oldest sister, who was like a back-up mom to the younger children.
Phrases with oldest
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with oldest
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the oldest 139×
- oldest and 14×
- second oldest 13×
- oldest in 13×
- oldest person 10×
- oldest child 8×
- world's oldest 7×
- world oldest 6×
- and oldest 5×
- oldest continuously 5×