: a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness
Examples of dotage in a Sentence
he's now in that stage of his dotage where he has trouble remembering the simplest things
Recent Examples on the Web
Only in the last decade or so, as Jerry tiptoes into his dotage, has the organizational chart come into focus.
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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
The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
The passions of youth wobbled within a body run to seed; the simple pleasures of Elvis in the youth of his golden Sun recordings flowered into the sickly extravagance of Elvis in his lusting, swollen Vegas dotage.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
Barry Bonds, however he was mysteriously fueled in his dotage, was amazing.
—Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
Trevorrow is able to mine from individual action sequences, how tame even T. rex now seems in its late-franchise dotage.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
Matisse is a taste that has, even in my dotage, escaped me.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
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
The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
The passions of youth wobbled within a body run to seed; the simple pleasures of Elvis in the youth of his golden Sun recordings flowered into the sickly extravagance of Elvis in his lusting, swollen Vegas dotage.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
Barry Bonds, however he was mysteriously fueled in his dotage, was amazing.
—Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
Trevorrow is able to mine from individual action sequences, how tame even T. rex now seems in its late-franchise dotage.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
Matisse is a taste that has, even in my dotage, escaped me.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
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dotage
noun
dot·age
ˈdōt-ij 
: a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness
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