Example sentences for: middle-age

How can you use “middle-age” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)

  • A middle-age white person would seldom be characterized as "dignified" or "deeply religious" (unless he is some kind of religious fanatic).

  • E Jones-Lee (1989) provides an estimate of age-adjusted VSL based on a finding that older people place a much lower value on mortality risk reductions than middle-age people.

  • Snoopy and Woodstock--unlike Charlie Brown and Lucy--represent the relatively banal inner life of a successful middle-age man.

  • If nothing else, Lewinsky's a twentysomething pitted against middle-age baby boomers--Linda Tripp, Lucianne Goldberg, Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton.


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