dotage

How To Use dotage In A Sentence

• Happy to slip into their anecdotage, they affectionately remember the stresses and strains of life on the factory floor, touring, recording and funding a funeral parlour that become their safe haven when it all became too much to bear.
• So good luck with that, Rupert. have a delightful, Howard-Hughesian dotage, acting out a crazed, Moby-Dick dumbshow against the Internet, hoping that the world's politics and economies will reform themselves to suit your fevered imaginings. Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals - Boing Boing
• Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be asham'd of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally remov'd from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characteriz'd, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid. Fanny Hill, Part X (second letter)
• Now, in his dotage, aged 40, he has gone to that convivial players' retirement home - the BBC.
• Why waste money best spent in your prime, when you might not even live to see your dotage ? THE MANANA MAN
• He scatters anecdotage as he guides you through his ‘houses’.
• Disease and arson brought the village tree down, but my parents seem rather more robust and I imagine them in their dotage as local figures of interest, pointed out by younger folk as the genuine article.
• Surely so important a figure in cinema and so charismatic a star deserves something better than anecdotage, gossip and platitudes for the story of his life, career and times.
• Thus the biggest surprise of "Picasso: Mosqueteros" is its evidence of a coloristic metamorphosis that overtook the monochromatically inclined master in his supposed dotage. The Late Show
• Himself a rational pleasurist, as being much too wise to be shamed of the pleasures of humanity, loved me indeed, but loved me with dignity; in a mean equally removed from the sourness, of forwardness, by which age is unpleasingly characterised, and from that childish silly dotage that so often disgraces it, and which he himself used to turn into ridicule, and compare to an old goat affecting the frisk of a young kid. Memoirs of Fanny Hill.