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.
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As a middle age white man, I've never been pulled over for that.
—cleveland, 14 June 2020
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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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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
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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 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
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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, USA TODAY, 26 June 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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Nearing middle age, the slackers still haven’t written the song that is supposed to unite the universe.
—cleveland, 15 June 2020
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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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Disney+ includes a plethora of options that strike an ideal balance for this stuck-in-the-middle age group.
—Rachel Murphy, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2020
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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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Over the course of a lifetime, happiness tends to start out high early in adulthood and decline in middle age, only to rise later in life.
—Deena Mousa, Scientific American, 12 July 2024
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The grim pattern has persisted for years and is totally different from that among U.S. women, for whom suicide rates rise in middle age and then fall.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
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