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.
  • Three lads from Prague, legendary rappers on the cusp of middle age, friends.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 May 2022
  • 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
  • In middle age, Chappelle acts less like a comic and more like a pundit.
    New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • In fact, for most people, life gets better starting in middle age.
    Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
  • Gopnik, a resident of New York City for decades, didn’t learn to drive until late middle age.
    Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2023
  • The hard truth is that with the inevitable metabolic shifts during middle age, what used to work to stay healthy might not cut it anymore, Best says.
    Time, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Still, as a man who is only in late middle age by Supreme Court standards, Roberts is not going anywhere any time soon.
    Jeffrey Toobin, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The title story concerns a Dublin man named Cathal who, on the brink of middle age, has been undone by his own misogyny.
    David Amsden, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Instead, middle age has proved to be the most successful phase of Adlon’s career.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Still, to go by the available research, men are much less likely to commit violent crimes in middle age than in their youth.
    Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Many seniors — or people who are returning to the dating pool in middle age — may be able to relate.
    Adela Suliman, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
  • The study focused on women in the middle age range because of the changes that typically happen to their bodies.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2022
  • No one has to digitally alter a picture of Dave Grohl at age 27 to imagine him in middle age.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2021
  • What’s more, these slim fit fans aren’t always approaching middle age.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Adopting eight healthy lifestyle habits by middle age can result in a substantially longer life than those with few or none of the habits.
    Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 24 July 2023
  • Both were lawyers living in Los Angeles who in middle age had turned to creating art.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Dawidoff, who grew up in New Haven and returned to live there in middle age, has written a great American book.
    Mark Oppenheimer, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • From fine and blond as a child to permed and scorched in high school, colored treated, highlighted and straightened from college to middle age, and now gray, wavy and thinning.
    Lorraine Wilde, Treehugger, 25 Jan. 2023
  • And that’s not a desirable situation in middle age, when the skin is already prone to thinness.
    Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Some didn’t know what had happened; the disease had seemed simply to appear, maybe during childhood, in college, or, as with me and many men, in middle age.
    Donald Antrim, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021

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