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.
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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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