Examples of 'was the elder' in a sentence

Meaning of "was the elder"

Indicates that a person is the older sibling or holds a higher rank or position in a group

How to use "was the elder" in a sentence

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was the elder
This was the elder brother of the killer.
It is not certain whether Alaeddin or Orhan was the elder son.
I was the elder until you brought him home.
Children was the elder.
He was the elder of his four brothers and sisters.
Sir David himself was the elder of three brothers.
He was the elder of two brothers with the same name.
It turned out that this Ouyang elder was the elder that registered for Chu Feng.
He was the elder of fraternal twins.
Commonly, the selected Doge was the elder in the city.
Mountbatten was the elder statesman of the royal family.
Only Nestor would vie with him, for he was the elder.
He was the elder of two sons.
According to this legend, Kudeyar was the elder brother of Ivan the Terrible.
It was the elder man who at last broke the silence.

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If this theory is true, he was the elder brother of Robert the Strong.
She was the elder partner and appears to have been very shy of publicity.
Houston was born in Tonypandy, and was the elder brother of actor Glyn Houston.
Rosalind was the elder daughter and the second child in the family of five children.
The architect of this effective strategy was the elder William Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham.
He was the elder son of Yaduraya.
Let a hand then be held out, as was the Elder Brother 's hand to a sinking Peter.
He was the elder brother of Teodoro.
They had two sons ; Robert was the elder.
No longer was the elder the conduit for the holy.
I cannae keep it now your father 's dead . He was the elder.
Vivian was the elder.
He was the elder brother of Andrzej Kochanowski who would also become a poet and translator.
Storyline Fu Jinhua was the elder of a house church in China.
Was the elder of the Princes in the Tower.
Mary Williams was the elder daughter of Revd.
Was the elder still around?
Nichael Fabritius was the elder brother of Just Fabritius.
Patka ( 半託迦 ), also called Panthaka or Mahāpanthaka, was the elder twin brother of Cullapatka.
Esau was the elder.
The son of Tytila, whom he succeeded, he was the elder brother of Eni.
He was the elder.
Born in Leicester, England, into a working-class family, Allen was the elder of two brothers.
So was the elder.
Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret.
Fidel was the elder brother of Ligaya.
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, was the elder brother of the first Earl.
Edom was the elder brother of Israel.
Of Adam 's first children, Cain was the elder son and Abel the younger.
Kin was the elder daughter and Gin was the younger daughter.
William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, was the elder brother of the first Earl of Eldon.
He was the elder brother of actor Richard Mulligan.
In some accounts he was the elder brother of Jesuel the heavenly Jesus.
He was the elder brother of author Peter Hitchens.
Barrington Marten was the elder son of sir Alfred Marten.

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