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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Divorced and in middle age, Choi’s mother is seized by wanderlust, setting out for Alaska, then drifting through a series of short-term stays elsewhere.
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Ages ranged from early 20s to late middle age.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
Divorced and in middle age, Choi’s mother is seized by wanderlust, setting out for Alaska, then drifting through a series of short-term stays elsewhere.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Isaac stars as both the middle ages poet Dante Alighieri and modern-day author Nick Tosches, the latter of which is drawn into a dangerous quest when a handwritten manuscript of The Divine Comedy resurfaces via the Vatican and lands in the hands of a New York mob boss.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Ages ranged from early 20s to late middle age.
—Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 13 Sep. 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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