| 1 | She is very active for an octogenarian . | |
| 2 | The writer's past eighty but she's still writing industriously. | |
| 3 | The other surviving members of the clan are pushing 80 or well beyond it. | |
| 4 | A man of eighty was picking up lumps of coal along the railroad. | |
| 5 | I see them lying there in their nighties, their faces shiny with night cream. |