How to Use the middle-aged in a Sentence

the middle-aged

noun
  • One is the awesome might of the middle-aged and elderly.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2012-05-30
  • Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man.
    — Katie Camero, NBC News, 2023-07-08
  • Her first front-page story from Japan was about the middle-aged dissolution of a beloved boy band.
    — Claire Moses, New York Times, 2023-02-19
  • Seventy years ago the middle-aged were in a twist about Elvis Presley swinging his hips on television.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 2024-01-06
  • In the trailer, Plaza shows up as the middle-aged version of herself while the present-day Elliot is tripping on shrooms in the woods.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 2024-06-27
  • The cancer, which had begun in the breast, had found its way into the patient’s spinal fluid, rendering the middle-aged mother of two unable to walk.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 2025-04-04
  • Take Tatiana, the middle-aged manager of a supermarket chain.
    — Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 2023-12-11
  • Rather than reject their advances, Max performs the middle-aged male mating call: jogging in a pair of grey sweatpants with no underwear.
    — Claire Franken, TVLine, 2025-04-03
  • The film’s younger guys dress in fake fur and act like Neanderthals, while the middle-aged men who have jobs are portrayed as incompetent nincompoops.
    — Susan Pinker, WSJ, 2023-09-21
  • The fight sequences with Mr. Freeze, that’s very much for the middle-aged generation of Batman fans, and then a bunch of stuff in there for the kids as well.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2023-12-25
  • Some of the less-secure women in their target audience, however, may feel a trifle turned off by the shameless emphasis on the middle-aged overachievers.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2023-03-07
  • No one to observe the lovers, no one to envy the middle-aged man with the much younger girl taking a romantic (if windy) walk along the beach at Cape May in December.
    — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 2025-03-16
  • An experienced camper, Sam takes the change in stride, spending much of the weekend—and the movie’s 90-minute run time—observing and humoring the middle-aged men.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 2024-08-12
  • And the January 2023 suspect—the middle-aged guy in a gray beanie who sprayed the couple with the Chihuahua on Magnolia?
    — Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 2023-11-07
  • Opposite the middle-aged acoustic guitar players and singers—succeeded by a hunky chain-smoking violinist in a camel suit—is an octogenarian with all his teeth missing.
    — Alexandra Pereira, Vogue, 2024-12-16
  • Runners who tune in to watch Kipchoge have grown intrigued by the middle-aged volunteer who punctuates every successful handoff with a double fist-pump celebration and helps keep Kipchoge on record paces.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 2023-09-22
  • The flamboyant conceptual artist is talking to her stepdaughter, Lydia (Winona Ryder), who’s grown from the morose teenager of Beetlejuice (1988) into the middle-aged star of a hokey ghost-hunting reality show.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 2024-08-28

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