Examples of middle age in a Sentence
as our generation approaches middle age
The patient was in late middle age.
He feared the approach of middle age.
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The idea behind the games is to promote middle age and elderly athletes to continue their sports competition careers and promote better health.
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 23 May 2025
Though Malkmus has maintained much of his lean, boyish West Coast cool, even edging toward late middle age, the quintet looks older and wiser, no longer burdened by their uncomfortable relationship with success.
—Scott Tobias, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
Instead, Chernow devotes a hefty portion of his 1,039 pages (excluding notes) to Twain’s personal tribulations, a depressing series of bungles and calamities starting in the author’s middle age.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
The Four Seasons is that rare thing — a comedy about middle age.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 May 2025
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 23 May 2025
Though Malkmus has maintained much of his lean, boyish West Coast cool, even edging toward late middle age, the quintet looks older and wiser, no longer burdened by their uncomfortable relationship with success.
—Scott Tobias, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
Instead, Chernow devotes a hefty portion of his 1,039 pages (excluding notes) to Twain’s personal tribulations, a depressing series of bungles and calamities starting in the author’s middle age.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
The Four Seasons is that rare thing — a comedy about middle age.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 3 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for middle age
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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middle age
noun
mid·dle age
ˌmid-ᵊl-ˈāj 
: the period of life from about 45 to about 64 years of age
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