How to Use midlife in a Sentence

midlife

noun
  • Rick Ross didn’t come to his love for the finer things in midlife.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
  • While midlife can disrupt a fresh mani, there are many ways to smooth out the bumps (and ridges).
    — Erica Metzger, Allure, 22 June 2023
  • The Porsche Cayenne is getting a midlife restyle for model year 2024.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2023
  • This wasn’t the story we’d been told about how midlife was supposed to go.
    — Joshua Mahoney, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Those titles came midlife for Skydance, and the last few years have been much kinder.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 10 July 2024
  • Some of us might take a bucket-list trip or get a divorce in midlife.
    — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • One of the most memorable gifts of my midlife was when my husband gave me the first iPod in 2001.
    — Nancy Baym, WIRED, 10 July 2018
  • New Years is a transitional time, and midlife acts in the same way.
    — TIME, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The midlife refresh of Jaguar's F-Type sports car is his team's most recent work.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Wired, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The video was part of Jayne’s midlife attempt at a recording career.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Many people in midlife lose their jobs and never make as much again.
    — Liz Weston, chicagotribune.com, 21 Oct. 2019
  • In midlife, most people who live alone spend most of their waking hours at work.
    — Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Women over 40 are flipping the script on what midlife is supposed to look like.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Both my parents died in the past few months, leaving me an orphan in midlife.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Test for and treat high LDL cholesterol from midlife onwards.
    — New Atlas, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Bongé and Parsons were that special duo who found something akin to a soul mate in midlife.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • It’s the kind of first-time stardom that is unlikely for most writers in midlife.
    — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Why are more doctors not talking to women about menopause and midlife?
    — Alice Park, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The book is peppered with jokey lists that try to nail both the indignities and the advantages of midlife.
    — Allison Pearson, New York Times, 29 May 2018
  • That’s true for the generation of women now in midlife, too.
    — Ada Calhoun, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Like Dante, Prin is lost in his own dark forest of midlife confusion.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But the notion of a miserable midlife turns out to be another bait and switch.
    — Lydia Kiesling, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • There are still benefits to getting the HPV vaccine in midlife.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Perhaps the best midlife advice comes from Child herself.
    — Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
  • No, we are not allowed to hoard secret favorites at midlife.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Are any number of these women in the throes of midlife crises, as their husbands are be expected to be?
    — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
  • And doing nothing, for now, might be my midlife revenge.
    — Kari Lizer Next Avenue, Star Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Niehaus' midlife medical crisis hasn't led him to quit his job and run off to Tahiti.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
  • New research published in the journal Nature Medicine found that people who followed one of eight healthy dietary patterns in midlife had a 45% to 86% greater chance of healthy aging.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 31 Mar. 2025
  • These changes can leave midlife skin more vulnerable to, among other changes, skin redness, including rosacea, a condition marked by chronic flushing.
    — Taylor Lane, Flow Space, 4 Apr. 2025

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