How to Use middle age in a Sentence

middle age

noun
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Both of us have exited middle age, but Crazy Mike is doing it right.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The book follows an artist entering middle age with all of the angst that often entails.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 11 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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