How to Use the middle-aged in a Sentence

the middle-aged

noun

• There’s the middle-aged coach who’s out of his depth, taking an all-or-nothing shot on an unlikely star.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 June 2025
• Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man.
  — Katie Camero, NBC News, 8 July 2023
• Her first front-page story from Japan was about the middle-aged dissolution of a beloved boy band.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023
• Jack has two long-time buddies, both of whom are experiencing their own version of the middle-aged daddy blues.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
• In order to move forward in her life, the middle-aged Ilona must defy social taboos and mourn her son, who has been missing for a decade.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 14 June 2023
• Seventy years ago the middle-aged were in a twist about Elvis Presley swinging his hips on television.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2024
• Phoebe Bridgers [told me] there is a real similarity to the middle-aged male brain and the adolescent teenage girl brain.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
• All these programs and council bills being discussed are aimed at the juveniles, the young healthy adults, the single parents and the middle-aged.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025
• 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, 27 June 2024
• 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, 4 Apr. 2025
• Take Tatiana, the middle-aged manager of a supermarket chain.
  — Elettra Pauletto, Harper's Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
• 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, 21 Sep. 2023
• The man behind Chit, Jay Renshaw, created the middle-aged character about six years ago.
  — Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 July 2025
• The store with the old oak floor was so charming, the middle-aged writers who hung around the lunch counter ordering vegan BLTs were charming.
  — Hayley Krischer, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
• In this entertaining novel, the middle-aged narrator, Dolores, discovers that her husband has done just that.
  — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• 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, 7 Mar. 2023
• The authorities in Sichuan accused a surprising demographic group, the middle-aged, of spending too much time online.
  — Mara Hvistendahl, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• Maxine’s boyfriend, the middle-aged cowboy stud Wayne (Martin Henderson) is producing the film and running the shoot.
  — Lexi Carson, Variety, 3 July 2024
• 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, 16 Mar. 2025
• 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, 12 Aug. 2024
• But the middle-aged version of De Luca elicits a mix of jealousy and resentment from some of his peers, many of whom see someone who, at times, hasn’t played by the same rules as everyone else.
  — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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, 7 Nov. 2023
• 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, 16 Dec. 2024
• 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, 22 Sep. 2023
• Stern also has talked about the value of therapy, come to the middle-aged realization his younger self demeaned women and appeared on Anderson Cooper, all of which seem like signs of just basic human growth or existence.
  — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
• Your mind might immediately go to the early-years Redford, or the heyday Redford of the 1970s, or even the middle-aged Redford who gave projects a sense of gravitas.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025
• 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, 28 Aug. 2024