"old" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

old adjetivo

old + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 2012
old man • old brother • old friend • old woman • old age • old sister • old son • old one • old boy • old lady • old song • old adult • ...
verbo + old
Kolokacji: 18
grow old • look old • feel old • turn old • get older • ...
adverbio + old
Kolokacji: 33
slightly older • far older • barely old • somewhat older • considerably older • ...
(3) barely, hardly, scarcely
Kolokacji: 3
2. hardly old = ledwie stary hardly old
  • Even now she looked scarcely old enough to be a mother.
  • When Eisenhower took over, it was scarcely 20 years old.
  • Practically a child, she decided, scarcely older than herself, if that.
  • While the project is scarcely a week old, the app already has a name: Letters.
  • I was scarcely two years old when we reached England - so my mother told me.
  • That young man with the jeep is scarcely old enough to shave.
  • Those creatures were scarcely older than you, and hardly more knowledgeable.
  • The messenger was a young boy, scarcely older than Fergus.
  • His divorce, not a particularly pleasant exercise in emotional law, was scarcely two weeks old.
  • He was weary from the war that was scarcely a year old.
(4) considerably, substantially
Kolokacji: 2
(6) significantly, mainly
Kolokacji: 2
old + preposición
Kolokacji: 17
old at • old for • old with • old by • old in • ...

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