How to Use middle age in a Sentence

middle age

noun
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  • 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
  • The eight men were in their late 40s, firmly in the realm of middle age.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • To have this kind of friendship in middle age is a real gift.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 9 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • But research also shows that middle age can be a hard time to find new friends.
    — Sarah Gundle, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The neighborhood’s changes work as a metaphor for the different stages of life — youth, middle age, and old age.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Philly.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • By the time Cheers ended a dozen years later, Danson was well into middle age, at a moment when the faces on television were about to get much, much fresher.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
  • For all that creative labor across the past century, the English-speaking world has been largely resigned to the idea of middle age as a dreadful, isolating crisis.
    — Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025

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