How to Use middle age in a Sentence

middle age

noun
  • He feared the approach of middle age.
  • The patient was in late middle age.
  • The game of youth, then middle age, are gone to us at some point.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Hank is a pale, white-haired man well into middle age.
    — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
  • But then, isn’t that what middle age is largely about?
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 19 Dec. 2025
  • To have this kind of friendship in middle age is a real gift.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 9 Sep. 2024
  • As a middle age white man, I've never been pulled over for that.
    — cleveland, 14 June 2020
  • But research also shows that middle age can be a hard time to find new friends.
    — Sarah Gundle, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Ages ranged from early 20s to late middle age.
    — Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Disease isn’t the cause—your achillea has reached middle age.
    — Sunset Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • There's ways in which this play becomes about middle age and about the road not taken.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 June 2024
  • The eight men were in their late 40s, firmly in the realm of middle age.
    — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
  • If spring is birth and summer is youth, fall is the full bloom of middle age (and winter is death).
    — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Many Americans think of it as late middle age.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Life is still unfair for Malcolm, now in middle age.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Pam, a middle aged woman who had been raised on a farm, was too mortified to say a word.
    — Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Three lads from Prague, legendary rappers on the cusp of middle age, friends.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 31 May 2022
  • And roughly half that loss has come from people who died in middle age, not their waning years.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Losing weight in middle age could set you up for a longer and healthier life, a new study found.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
  • The transition from middle age to old age is often one of slowing down.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Time, 21 Sep. 2017
  • In middle age, Chappelle acts less like a comic and more like a pundit.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Gadiano worked in the fields off and on from childhood into middle age.
    — Kerry Klein, NPR, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Young people are now unhappier than those in middle age, a new study has found.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Most people think of high cholesterol as a condition of middle age.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 18 Mar. 2026
  • From the distance of middle age, the pressure to achieve looks like a race toward a false horizon.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
  • To welcome her and Murray here is, to me, one of the deep pleasures of middle age.
    — Kyre Chenven, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2018
  • But at 87 years old, barely into middle age, the tree is sickly.
    — New York Times, 28 May 2022
  • So, as these artists enter new phases of their career and near middle age, what’s the draw of dance music?
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The driver is a South Asian man in late middle age who has been doing this job for some time.
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The beauty and wit of middle age is quickly lost if deprived of a comfortable spot to rest ones bones.
    — Leah Groth, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2021

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