How to Use middle age in a Sentence

middle age

noun
  • He feared the approach of middle age.
  • The patient was in late middle age.
  • The game of youth, then middle age, are gone to us at some point.
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
  • As a middle age white man, I've never been pulled over for that.
    cleveland, 14 June 2020
  • To welcome her and Murray here is, to me, one of the deep pleasures of middle age.
    Kyre Chenven, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Some people hit middle age and buy a shiny red sports car.
    Sue Sanders, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2019
  • There's ways in which this play becomes about middle age and about the road not taken.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 June 2024
  • If spring is birth and summer is youth, fall is the full bloom of middle age (and winter is death).
    Elisa Albert, Longreads, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Three lads from Prague, legendary rappers on the cusp of middle age, friends.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 May 2022
  • The driver is a South Asian man in late middle age who has been doing this job for some time.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The digital upstarts of the last decade have hit middle age.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
  • From the distance of middle age, the pressure to achieve looks like a race toward a false horizon.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Just consider all the life changes that middle age brings.
    Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 14 July 2022
  • Disease isn’t the cause—your achillea has reached middle age.
    Sunset Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • Is Us), and the storyline about their adult lives is very clearly a tale of middle age, aka mid-40s, woe.
    Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Pam, a middle aged woman who had been raised on a farm, was too mortified to say a word.
    Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Ritter is a sandy-haired, blue-eyed fellow in middle age.
    Scott Harrison, latimes.com, 2 July 2019
  • But for wealthy Asian consumers, middle age is the new prime of life—not the beginning of the end that prompts the dreaded midlife crisis.
    Catherine Feliciano-Chon, Quartz, 29 July 2019
  • Sixty-two is a point in life that many of us would call middle age: hardly a moment to hang it all up.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Sixty-two is a point in life that many of us would term middle age: hardly a moment to hang it all up.
    Daniel De Visé, The Enquirer, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Sixty-two is a point in life that many of us would term middle age: hardly a moment to hang it all up.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 26 June 2024
  • In middle age, Chappelle acts less like a comic and more like a pundit.
    New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Nearing middle age, the slackers still haven’t written the song that is supposed to unite the universe.
    cleveland, 15 June 2020
  • Then came a series of setbacks, even as the 16-hour days Mr. Peel had worked as a young chef left him in middle age with pain from sore joints and back strains.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 2 July 2021
  • So, as these artists enter new phases of their career and near middle age, what’s the draw of dance music?
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2022
  • And roughly half that loss has come from people who died in middle age, not their waning years.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The beauty and wit of middle age is quickly lost if deprived of a comfortable spot to rest ones bones.
    Leah Groth, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • But at 87 years old, barely into middle age, the tree is sickly.
    New York Times, 28 May 2022
  • Instead of staying slim as younger adults and then putting on pounds in middle age, younger people had the highest weight gain.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2022
  • From the cynicism and compromises of middle age, the show wends its way back to the innocence and idealism of young adulthood.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024

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