late in life

1. In old age. For example, Isn't it rather late in life for your grandmother to go trekking in Nepal?

Example Sentences

Until late in life, he was still pondering who that successor might be.

From Los Angeles Times

Given that status, the way she appeared late in life was all the more shocking.

From BBC

Adler returned to Broadway as a performer late in life, appearing in Elaine May’s 2000 comedy “Taller Than a Dwarf” and Larry David’s “Fish in the Dark” in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times

Osbourne, who died Tuesday at 76 — just weeks after he gave what he billed as his final performance in his hometown of Birmingham, England — sold tens of millions of albums, was twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and late in life found an unlikely second career as a pioneering reality-television star.

From Los Angeles Times

Kim Woodburn, who has died at the age of 83, found fame relatively late in life alongside co-star Aggie McKenzie in Channel 4 show How Clean is Your House.

From BBC