he's now in that stage of his dotage where he has trouble remembering the simplest things
Recent Examples on the WebHelen must have told it to herself, in her dotage, long after the ships had sailed home from Troy.—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2024 Only in the last decade or so, as Jerry tiptoes into his dotage, has the organizational chart come into focus.—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023 Apparently some of us nodded off in our dotage.—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2020 The conversation, held at the start of his career as a singer, raises one of the many questions that Diamond faces both in his youth and in his dotage.—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022 See all Example Sentences for dotage
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