dotage

Example Sentences

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Moreover, though stories about starting all over again in one’s dotage are endearing and kindly, as “Calle Málaga” is, they have a core of sheer fantasy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

"I've always wanted to tap dance, and in my dotage perhaps it's something I could take up," said Queen Camilla, when she met Johannes Radebe from the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing show.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2024

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

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.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 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