dotage

Example Sentences

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It broke Lyndon Johnson, turned Barack Obama’s hair gray and accelerated Joe Biden’s decline into dotage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Rebecca Amos, one of the park's vets, says a special diet and some exercise will be key to looking after Victoria in her dotage.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2025

Charles took over the family business well past normal retirement age, while Amis was denied the illustrious dotage that great writers deserve.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

He would never allow himself to slip into a satisfied baseball dotage.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

They might or might not have counted themselves happy, though; happiness as they conceived it then was a thing attained, a grand state, involving a fiefdom to survey from the plump comfort of their dotage.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen