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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This was the Burnett that gained a kind of cult fame, the filmmaker in middle age, treading purgatory.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
The actor, 37, will reprise the role for the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a sequel set far enough in the future that the Malfoy character is also approaching middle age.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
The women were surveyed in middle age and followed for 30 years to understand their rates of death and disease.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
Briefly: Robinson’s character, Craig Waterman, has reached middle age as the barely tolerable sum of his parts.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 14 June 2025
The actor, 37, will reprise the role for the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a sequel set far enough in the future that the Malfoy character is also approaching middle age.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
The women were surveyed in middle age and followed for 30 years to understand their rates of death and disease.
—Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 2 June 2025
Briefly: Robinson’s character, Craig Waterman, has reached middle age as the barely tolerable sum of his parts.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2025
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“Middle age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20age. Accessed 23 Jun. 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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