Example sentences for: middle-aged

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

  • I embrace my middle-aged, middlebrow destiny, regularly dozing off around 9:30 in front of a Merchant-Ivory movie on public television.

  • Then, one afternoon, during a celebratory picnic in the countryside near Oxford, they hear a shout of distress: A middle-aged man is entangled in one of the anchoring lines of an enormous hot-air balloon while his passenger, a terrified child, is unsuccessfully attempting to escape from the basket.

  • We argue that there is currently a short window of opportunity to take action to control the HIV epidemic in Nepal—and that inaction will lead to HIV becoming the biggest killer of the young and middle-aged in the next decade.

  • Yohji Yamamoto uses tragic-faced models, some bald, middle-aged, and not so slim, on whom his quasi-Middle Eastern robes, coats, and headgear look nearly noble.

  • O ne cannot but admire a standard dictionary that defines middle-aged as “between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner” and says that the verb perpetrate means “to execute or commit (esp.


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