How to Use dotage in a Sentence

dotage

noun

• The heroes of the team are now in their dotage so the time to strike again is here and now.
  — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
• The street has four dowager homes, several well into their dotage.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Most were big men who could take up residence in the low post and didn't always have to run the court in their dotage.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• Maybe even, in his dotage, Biden might let what’s left of the Obama legacy slip away.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
• Helen 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
• What astonished, flearing, and confused mumps and mows doth this dotage stir up in our visages!
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• In his basketball dotage, Kyle Lowry is getting soft.
  — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
• The Angels have spent more than that on Albert Pujols’ dotage.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2021
• Petty’s best music doesn’t age into dotage like so many of his contemporaries.
  — Michael Washburn, Longreads, 9 July 2019
• So how is this remarkable thespian primate spending his dotage?
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2006
• In their dotage, a lot of these hacks were writing silly columns for crappy neighborhood newspapers.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Far from being a sign of dotage, scientists concurred, music practice in old age confers all kinds of cognitive benefits.
  — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
• Even in his relative dotage, Butler remains one of the best two-way players in the game, with a knack for elevating his play in the postseason.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
• At the time, Dylan was thirteen and living with his grandparents, kindly folks in their dotage who’d endured his parents’ addictions.
  — Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Barry Bonds, however he was mysteriously fueled in his dotage, was amazing.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
• Take measures to avoid becoming one of those people who, in their dotage, walks around town with a parrot on their shoulders, smiling broadly despite the fact that its claws are really digging into their flesh.
  — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
• Trump recalled Esposito having a baseball bat under his desk and, in his dotage, swinging a cane at uncooperative elements.
  — John Ganz, airmail.news, 8 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Butler remains a talented, if mercurial, two-way star, even in his relative dotage at age 35 with 14 years of mileage — including two runs to the Finals with Miami — under his belt.
  — Alex Kirschenbaum, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
• 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
• In minimalist verse, Lesa Cline-Ransome begins with the woman in her dotage, then walks readers back through her years as suffragist, spy and liberator — but also, importantly, as a woman who simply wanted to be free.
  — Rumaan Alam, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018