middle years
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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The middle years in college, that’s when I decided I wanted to be a coach — just seeing the relationships these guys have with us.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2023
Rather than try to re-create the Holocaust onstage, he portrayed Levi in his reflective middle years, looking back on the horrors of Auschwitz with restrained precision.
From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2021
Claire Foy played Britain’s young Queen Elizabeth II for the first two seasons, with Olivia Colman stepping in to chart her middle years last season and in the 10 new episodes out Sunday.
From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2020
Though Federer did not participate in the Hopman Cup through the middle years of his career, he has a long attachment to the event, first coming to Perth as a hitting partner in 1999.
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2019
A photograph from his late middle years shows him as gaunt and sinister, like the villain in a Victorian melodrama, with long, lank hair and bulging eyes–a face to frighten babies.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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