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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Though still watchable well into middle age, DiCaprio is no longer, on his own, an excuse to visit the cinema.
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Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
That came out of that climate of being in middle age, still having parents, having small children.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025
But from middle age to retirement age of 65, there is considerable loss, and then the loss steepens in the 70s as if falling off a cliff.
—Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Hollywood’s leading performers, venturing into the dark vale of middle age, have often been kindly treated by directors of photography, if not by screenwriters.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
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Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
That came out of that climate of being in middle age, still having parents, having small children.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2025
But from middle age to retirement age of 65, there is considerable loss, and then the loss steepens in the 70s as if falling off a cliff.
—Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Hollywood’s leading performers, venturing into the dark vale of middle age, have often been kindly treated by directors of photography, if not by screenwriters.
—Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 25 Oct. 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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