How to Use at the age of in a Sentence

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  • Vita Sackville-West – who at the age of 18 are a bit lost.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Nov. 2024
  • This is someone who, even at the age of 35, has some of the best endurance in the league.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2023
  • He was fast-tracked into the senior side at the age of just 17.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • In April, 2000, the incumbent, Bernie Grant, died, at the age of fifty-six.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
  • A lot of people would leave a band at the age of 25 and that would be it, the career would be over.
    — Marc Hirsh, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
  • My father raised me and my sibling (who passed away at the age of 40).
    — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Bill Fay, the British cult folk singer-songwriter, has passed away at the age of 81.
    — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Wally Amos, known to most as Famous Amos, has died at the age of 88.
    — Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Consider Sinéad O'Connor, who died this week at the age of 56.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 July 2023
  • Mark Cuban started his first venture at the age of 12 to sell garbage bags.
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The music legend passed away at the age of 83 on Wednesday.
    — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock has died at the age of 49.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2024
  • Pamela Bach, an actress and the ex-wife of David Hasselhoff, has died at the age of 62.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The truth is that most celebrities are having something done–even at the age of 31.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2023
  • On May 24, news broke that legendary singer Tina Turner died at the age of 83.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 26 May 2023
  • During production, Lee died at the age of 28 when he was shot by a prop gun on the set of the film.
    — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Hawkins died last March at the age of 50 while Foo Fighters were on tour in Colombia.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
  • Shakur succumbed to his injuries a week later at the age of 25.
    — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Alas, Mozart died that same year at the age of 35 before finishing the piece.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The young mother from North Carolina took home the title at the age of 20.
    — Madeline Boardman, EW.com, 1 May 2024
  • On April 24, news broke that the veteran TV judge died from bone cancer at the age of 78.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 25 Apr. 2023
  • On April 24, news broke that the veteran TV judge died from bone cancer at the age of 78.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The announcement of charges came on the 47th anniversary of Presley’s death at the age of 42.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Jack McDonough first tried blues a year earlier, at the age of 17.
    — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Robbie Robertson, the guitarist and main songwriter of The Band, has died at the age of 80.
    — Spin Staff, Spin, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Her friend died at the age of 64 from a drug overdose, a needle found under her bed.
    — The Enquirer, 14 Mar. 2024
  • And yet the millennial CEO, who took on the top job at the age of 35, never wants his team to see that stress.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2025
  • According to the Indy Star, Pollard’s dad Pearl, who was 6-foot-8, died at the age of 54.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Smith died at the age of 29, just a few months after the death of her son Daniel and the birth of her daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead.
    — Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 17 May 2023
  • Five years after the article was published, Brian died from a drug overdose at the age of 36.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2025

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