How to Use midlife crisis in a Sentence

midlife crisis

noun
  • We knew he was going through a midlife crisis when he bought a new sports car.
  • On some level, this is a self-help book about midlife crises.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Growth is what a midlife crisis boils down to—and that's not a bad thing.
    — Ricardo Madan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Also, a kit to how to make your way through a midlife crisis.
    — Wired Staff, Wired, 6 Aug. 2021
  • And in my case, my character is at one of his many midlife crises!
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
  • If done with thought and care, the midlife crisis doesn’t have to be a crisis at all.
    — Danielle Braff, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Yes, sometimes people who leave in the throes of a midlife crisis do come back.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Yes, sometimes people who leave in the throes of a midlife crisis do come back.
    — Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 9 June 2024
  • Could the midlife crisis in fact be the site of rebirth and renewal?
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
  • This must be the least interesting midlife crisis of all time.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Perhaps that’s the crux of the crises, universal among all midlife crisis.
    — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
  • How the midlife crisis presents itself depends on the person.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Or, in today’s terms, a midlife crisis of direction?
    — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Missing key milestones may be a substantial part of the midlife crisis, as well.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
  • There is a whole next stage to explore about what comes after midlife crisis for all of these characters.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Dec. 2022
  • His character, Martin, has the leaden tread of a man stuck in a midlife crisis.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2021
  • One, what attracted me to it was a guy going through something between a quarter- and midlife crisis.
    — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Seemingly in the throes of a midlife crisis, Donald is thin-skinned and prone to nervous fits.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Rather than being bit players in Hank’s midlife crisis, the ensemble comes to the fore.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And in this particular version of her midlife crisis, the Olympic skater learns to have fun.
    — Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2026
  • That successful friend also happens to be going through a midlife crisis.
    — Anthony Jeselnik, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • The midlife crisis appears to be moving to earlier life in the third year of the pandemic.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Fortunately for the living things in our solar system, the sun shows no signs of a midlife crisis.
    — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • Now, the 55–year-old Habitat is going through somewhat of a midlife crisis.
    — Nancy Keates, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Still, running struggling businesses would be enough to push some people into a midlife crisis.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The reason has nothing to do with a midlife crisis for the four-time major champion who turned 30 last year.
    — Doug Ferguson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2019
  • But nothing seems to be going right for Hank, who’s in the midst of a midlife crisis and seems dead set on burning his life down to the ground.
    — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Dec. 2023
  • And Jay gets to have a particularly luxe midlife crisis, fueled by the resources of a rich movie star.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Paula has found a heartfelt and funny style to tell the story of the diversity of modern love and midlife crisis when adults act like teenagers.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024
  • But that doesn’t necessarily reveal some hardwired, inevitable midlife crisis that each of us must pass through.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025

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