How to Use middle age in a Sentence
middle age
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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
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Three lads from Prague, legendary rappers on the cusp of middle age, friends.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 May 2022
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The digital upstarts of the last decade have hit middle age.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2021
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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
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Just consider all the life changes that middle age brings.
—Olivia Muenter, Woman's Day, 14 July 2022
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Disease isn’t the cause—your achillea has reached middle age.
—Sunset Magazine, 13 July 2022
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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
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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
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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
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In middle age, Chappelle acts less like a comic and more like a pundit.
—New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But at 87 years old, barely into middle age, the tree is sickly.
—New York Times, 28 May 2022
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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
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Both of us have exited middle age, but Crazy Mike is doing it right.
—Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2021
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The book follows an artist entering middle age with all of the angst that often entails.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
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In fact, for most people, life gets better starting in middle age.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
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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
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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
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His friend, in late middle age, shows up as a boarder and is preoccupied with aspects of his past.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
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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
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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
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Instead, middle age has proved to be the most successful phase of Adlon’s career.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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Ageing causes a decline in muscle mass (and function), at a rate of 1 percent a year from middle age.
—Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2020
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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
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In Cold Water, Lincoln will play John, a repressed man who who is shocked to find himself in middle age, secretly raging at his life as a stay-at-home dad.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 27 June 2024
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