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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Now, in his late-middle age, a much more flexible Linklater is ruminating on other notorious artists.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
The heedless afternoons of childhood meet the fatherless afternoons of late middle age, and the bereaved son is in danger of being buried in them.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Though that seems like a high price to pay, sports fandom can make people do strange things, and this George Abbott–created, Abbott- and Stanley Donen–directed musical is really about the discontents of middle age anyway.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Hank is a pale, white-haired man well into middle age.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
The heedless afternoons of childhood meet the fatherless afternoons of late middle age, and the bereaved son is in danger of being buried in them.
—James Wood, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Though that seems like a high price to pay, sports fandom can make people do strange things, and this George Abbott–created, Abbott- and Stanley Donen–directed musical is really about the discontents of middle age anyway.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Hank is a pale, white-haired man well into middle age.
—Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 8 Nov. 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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