How to Use dotage in a Sentence

dotage

noun
  • Matisse is a taste that has, even in my dotage, escaped me.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Maybe even, in his dotage, Biden might let what’s left of the Obama legacy slip away.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Most were big men who could take up residence in the low post and didn't always have to run the court in their dotage.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Helen must have told it to herself, in her dotage, long after the ships had sailed home from Troy.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The Angels have spent more than that on Albert Pujols’ dotage.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The street has four dowager homes, several well into their dotage.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 7 June 2018
  • What astonished, flearing, and confused mumps and mows doth this dotage stir up in our visages!
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • The conversation, held at the start of his career as a singer, raises one of the many questions that Diamond faces both in his youth and in his dotage.
    — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Even in his relative dotage, Butler remains one of the best two-way players in the game, with a knack for elevating his play in the postseason.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Petty’s best music doesn’t age into dotage like so many of his contemporaries.
    — Michael Washburn, Longreads, 9 July 2019
  • And those like myself: moderate to intense sports fans ranging in age from adolescence to early dotage.
    — Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Trevorrow is able to mine from individual action sequences, how tame even T. rex now seems in its late-franchise dotage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
  • In their dotage, a lot of these hacks were writing silly columns for crappy neighborhood newspapers.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2025
  • At the time, Dylan was thirteen and living with his grandparents, kindly folks in their dotage who’d endured his parents’ addictions.
    — Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Only in the last decade or so, as Jerry tiptoes into his dotage, has the organizational chart come into focus.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The passions of youth wobbled within a body run to seed; the simple pleasures of Elvis in the youth of his golden Sun recordings flowered into the sickly extravagance of Elvis in his lusting, swollen Vegas dotage.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • So how is this remarkable thespian primate spending his dotage?
    — John Brownlee, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2006
  • Take measures to avoid becoming one of those people who, in their dotage, walks around town with a parrot on their shoulders, smiling broadly despite the fact that its claws are really digging into their flesh.
    — WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The generations of theatergoers who grew up on book musicals, replete with original songs that were written in a distinctive Broadway style, with roots in operetta and Tin Pan Alley, are in their dotage now.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Barry Bonds, however he was mysteriously fueled in his dotage, was amazing.
    — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
  • In minimalist verse, Lesa Cline-Ransome begins with the woman in her dotage, then walks readers back through her years as suffragist, spy and liberator — but also, importantly, as a woman who simply wanted to be free.
    — Rumaan Alam, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018

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