How to Use dotage in a Sentence

dotage

noun

• Matisse is a taste that has, even in my dotage, escaped me.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• 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
• The Angels have spent more than that on Albert Pujols’ dotage.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2021
• The street has four dowager homes, several well into their dotage.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• What astonished, flearing, and confused mumps and mows doth this dotage stir up in our visages!
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• Petty’s best music doesn’t age into dotage like so many of his contemporaries.
  — Michael Washburn, Longreads, 9 July 2019
• And those like myself: moderate to intense sports fans ranging in age from adolescence to early dotage.
  — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• So how is this remarkable thespian primate spending his dotage?
  — John Brownlee, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2006
• 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
• 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

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