How To Use Middle-aged In A Sentence

The women, all middle-aged, were naked, masking their state of undress behind the banner.
The blow to his head must have concussed him, for he saw two middle-aged women straighten up and walk briskly to the I.V. unit.
He will have noted the height, build, and general appearance of the two men: one was fat, middle-aged, and bald and had a scar over his left eye; the other younger, fair-haired, more athletic, and had a moustache.
Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
Similarly, a study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs /aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs.

The bulk of the book concerns Sandy's two middle-aged children.
He said he was stocky, not too tall, very broad shouldered and middle-aged.
Perrault's ‘Bluebeard’ is the story of a rich, middle-aged gentleman, named for his swarthy chin and saturnine manner, who marries a young woman.
I read it again, but instead of seeing a heavily made up moll with a dark bob and beaded dress with a pout, I envisioned a sleazy, straight, middle-aged white man.
She is a gorgeously full-figured woman, and he is quite the strapping middle-aged man.
The participants are middle-aged men in tweed hats that you might expect to see on a British gentleman farmer.
He was middle-aged, with a prominent potbelly and tacky gold jewelry.
It belongs to a friendly, middle-aged man loitering in his garden. Times, Sunday Times
Do you think we will be awed by the number of nubile, dim-witted, improbably large-breasted young ladies your middle-aged "narrator" sleeps with in the throes of his midlife crisis, after leaving his wrinkled shrew of a wife? Archive 2009-09-01
Are there mitigating circumstances, or just a middle-aged roué's glib excuses?
I joined that group shortly thereafter and it was there I met Isao Takahashi Sensei, a middle-aged nisei Hawaiian who spoke English with an accent having lived in Japan as a boy.
Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches. Brave New World
She was an over-weight middle-aged woman with a grown son, who like me had idealistically returned to college later in life. Menace Poster | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
For most of the non-golfing population the game is a ludicrous one played by middle-aged, middle-class men in questionable knitwear.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. Oscar Wilde
Isabelle arrives accompanied by her silly and pretentious mother and Romainville, a middle-aged roué and friend.
It's the confidential stenographer who has been tampered with — you remember that middle-aged, youngish-oldish woman, Tom? THEFT
One middle-aged woman in the group said she had considered moving to Canada. Times, Sunday Times
I lived in Banbury Road and was walking through Bevington Road late at night and witnessed a middle-aged man pleasuring himself by the phone box.
The cashier, a middle-aged woman with nondescript features, cleared her throat and pointed to the right.
She is middle-aged, with a good marriage and a beautiful suburban home. Times, Sunday Times
So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
The young are in debt mortgaged up to the hilt, and the middle-aged are in clover, sitting on a semi-detached gold mine.
Clothing stores aimed at the middle-aged will be looking for nostalgic tracks from their customers' adolescence.
I am all for the concept of middle-agedness kicking in somewhere around eighty-five or so, as I'm assuming most of my friends will all be too senile or stoned on their "glaucoma medicine" to join me in reckless frivolities by then anyway. Bluemeany Diary Entry
The customer, a middle-aged woman in jeans, blazer, conservative loafers, slunk away apologetically.
A middle-aged woman sitting at the stop then looked at me, pointed and said “Tedesco, tedesco?”. Mortadella? Molto Bella!
A middle-aged white male member of the audience turned round towards him. Times, Sunday Times
During the riots, one middle-aged Afro-Caribbean woman told a television crew: "This would never happen in Jamaica. Jamelia: Respect for single mothers!
Had it somehow occurred to him that swimsuit modeling (if you can call microscopic shreds of fabric "swimwear") has absolutely nothing to do with sports, unless you count the "sport" of girl-watching, which is a passé, politically incorrect and pathetic pastime, especially for middle-aged men? LJWorld.com stories: News
But why is a cultured married middle-aged woman networking on the internet? Times, Sunday Times
The company is run almost entirely by middle-aged men.
Hullo, young cockbird," said the owner of the face -- a middle-aged, respectable, nautical-looking sort of man -- speaking in a cheery voice, which went to my heart; "what's the row with you, my hearty? On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
He is middle-aged, like Benjamin, and slightly plump.
No way is she going to alienate her loyal 'middle-aged football hoolie' following. Times, Sunday Times
The film starts well with an amusing scene in some dusty outback schoolroom where a class of dazed children listen to a middle-aged bank manager wax about the wonders of compound interest.
The doorman was an attractive, middle-aged Greek whose graying temples made him look distinguished. Déjà Vu
The Vegas audience of polyester-clad gamblers and middle-aged couples contrast starkly with the fag-puffing, beer-swilling crowds at home.
Much has been made of the "lairy, middle-aged" Take That fans on tour. Farewell and good riddance to Little Britain | Barbara Ellen
QUOTATION: Middle-aged clubwoman, with a flutter in her voice: Oh, Mr. Stevenson, your speech was superfluous. Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-65)
And when I read of the activities of many octogenarians, I think that relative to them I am still ‘middle-aged’.
A middle-aged lady appeared, clad in tweeds, more like a squiress than a Valleys housewife. GOODBYE CURATE
The types we got at B&Q were young couples, old crusty workmen blokes, middle-aged couples, pensioners (usually on a Wednesday) and the odd beefy bearish labourer.
A middle-aged woman with stiff, wood-colored curls all over her head was advancing on her, marching in heavy-footed determination.
In the past two years, I have worked on a Welsh hill farm in lambing season, joined a male choir and competed at the National Eisteddfod, learned to row a coracle, been down one of the last Welsh coal mines, sent my middle-aged body out to train with Cardiff rugby players half my age. My quest to be more Welsh
I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been.
A tap at the door preluded its opening, and a middle-aged man with fading red hair walked in, accompanied by his elder daughter.
He looked like an investment banker: middle-aged, clean-cut, wearing an expensive-looking gray suit.
The middle-aged may want to preserve an order they are accustomed to, or perhaps their careers.
He observed that the middle-aged inmate was the only one who was confident about eating in front of him.
She was middle-aged and running to fat.
For middle-aged women since the 1950s, Paris has been associated with romance - and sometimes with sex.
There was no sound — which lent merciful distance to what it showed: the interrogation of some unidentified middle-aged man, undergoing falanga, mostly (beatings to pulp the feet), though the session culminated in anal rape with a stick. Watching Torture
Quinn, the main protagonist, is a middle-aged government official sent north to audit a remote area of land earmarked for a large and prestigious development. On Climate Change « Tales from the Reading Room
At the X-ray machine the security officer was a middle-aged lady with a frisky look. Times, Sunday Times
A middle-aged woman in a red suit adorned with a plastic button proclaiming “Jesus Loves Me!” offers a twenty-page service bulletin with a glossy purple and gold cover, and greets her fellow church members with a shouted “Welcome!” as she sways and claps to the music. American Grace
Ki Price Simon Mottram outside his studios But how and why does a middle-aged man become a MAMIL middle-aged man in Lycra? When Just Any Old Lycra Won't Do
A middle-aged couple and their teenage daughter were sitting behind it.
As in egalitarian feminist psychology, white, middle-class, middle-aged, heterosexual women are the main subjects of woman-centred psychology.
Over the years, I'd gone from what I fondly imagined to be a switched-on, youngish-minded mum to a rancid, middle-aged harridan, glaring at shrieking texting huddles in the street – youngsters I didn't even know, but would consider lightly birching. It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen
He was a homeless man, heavily bearded and middle-aged. Times, Sunday Times
The manic shoppers in search of baby-soft cashmere or cool leather strides range from gamine model types to balding businessmen and sleek middle-aged ladies.
He works out frequently, totes no middle-aged paunch and looks ready to carry on with another 20 years of activity.
Increasingly widespread, this chronic disease (currently believed to affect at least 5\% of middle-aged men and women, though the number of apnoeic subjects could be much higher) is often associated with snoring. Health News from Medical News Today
It's a sobriquet that conjures up visions of rich but not-very-fit middle-aged men hauling on very large fishing rods and imagining they're Ernest Hemingway, the ultimate he-man.
Gradually, though, I realized, that Luz, the school's elegant, middle-aged director, and modish, twenty-five-year-old Luis could talk on or join us for comida (the big afternoon meal) because they weren't rushing off somewhere. Eight surprises from a senior year abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico
One of the cooks, a stout middle-aged woman whom the others called Johanna, gave him a glance of sympathy. The Hosts of the Air
We're watching "The Water Under The Water" and I am middle-aged and my husband and I gripe all weekend about animal care, who does what and all the things that have gotten ruined by the animals, whose fault it was... and Marlton, right there in the dark popcorn-less screening room assaults my left earlobe with branding-iron heat. Indiscretions
The poilu was a middle-aged man, and very drunk on some foul spirit which he had bought in a low cafe down by the river. Now It Can Be Told
So: is it all over for the middle-aged white man? Times, Sunday Times
Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies, who look upon it as a social club.
When the pig had wheezed its last breath, one man singed off its hair with a blowtorch, another gave it what I can only describe as a post-mortem enema, and its owner, a middle-aged man with a thick mustache, began to butcher it. NYT > Home Page
Lerner and his colleagues studied genes in actively dividing cells from young, middle-aged and old patients, and those with progeria, another rare genetic disorder characterized by accelerated aging.
Like other systemic mycoses, the infection is most prevalent in middle-aged men.
Why hide razor-sharp cheekbones and perfect pout behind middle-aged fringed follicles? Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps the sight of a middle-aged man, his moobs exposed to an arctic blast on a rainy Tuesday morning, might have been a little too much for her.
The fact that they are middle-aged men - the lines on their faces as chiseled as their biceps, triceps and pectorals - adds to the curiosity the images elicit.
A middle-aged woman in brown came running up to Fire and threw her arms over his neck.
The man who faced her looked to be middle-aged, with dark, swept back hair and suntanned skin, with brown eyes set under black brows.
A middle-aged man bit off part of a teenager's ear and then sank his teeth into his lip during a queue-jumping argument in a supermarket.
Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
What could be more flattering to a middle-aged woman than a portrait? Times, Sunday Times
The results tell us for the first time that we should not discriminate between older and middle-aged people when we select patients for therapy to prevent heart attack.
Tenderness crept into her eyes, and her freckles seemed to fade out, and even the small blunt nose of her take on middle-agedness and motherliness. Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
Behind us, a middle-aged couple began to dance, a gentle rhythmic shuffle which seemed to catch on amongst the audience.
The jury forewoman, chosen because she happened to be seated in the first chair in the jury box, is a middle-aged black woman who lived in the Parkchester section of the Bronx several decades ago.
Our confidence undented by the occasional funny look we attract from people who consider it strange to see two middle-aged men walking round town carrying crazy golf putters.
And so the splenetic young rebel became a middle-aged man with studious specs and a shock of silver hair.
The Picture of Dorian Gray fantasizes a world where middle-aged hedonists can be forever boys, equated in a timeless plane composed half out of lust, half out of the wish-fulfilling visions of the fairy story.
The scrumpy middle-aged ones who've begun to sag have nice houses with a couple of tasteful pictures on the mantlepiece and a fresh rug, showing off a house that looks as lived in as the bodies they're revealing. Oscar Nominee Roundup: The Queen and The Departed
In the gloaming I watch the audience scramble in, middle-aged women with puffy legs wearing tiny dresses, and see-through black silk shirts over cretonne bosoms propped up on bony rolling lacy corsets.
It would just be so much easier if he was middle-aged, overweight and losing his hair. The Sun
Five middle-aged businessmen in a desert landscape politely stand before a Middle Eastern man wearing a turban and robe.
\tab He saw reflected in the glass a figure coming down the sidewalk-heavyset, middle-aged, wearing a gun belt almost concealed by belly overflowing it, a holstered hogleg on his right thigh, star on his left breast, otherwise dressed much as Lazarus was dressed. Time Enough For Love
Equally, many men in mid-life refuse to conform to the physical stereotype of the beery middle-aged spread, cardigan and carpet slippers, and are happy to play along with the notion that they are only as old as they feel.
And, far from being teenage tearaways, the typical offender is a middle-aged white-collar worker who probably drinks lager.
Looking unashamedly middle-aged at times, she portrays the 15-year-old Anna with relentless gusto and enthusiasm.
In the office she stood, a middle-aged lady (close on two-and-forty years old) bonnetless and capless, amid a posse of young clerks: the telegraph operator, the messenger, the indoor clerk, the postman: to whom she was an object of unending curiosity. Ultima Thule
A table of four middle-aged Neapolitan men, puffing on big cigars with all the assurance of the beginner, while eyeing up the three unreachably teenage, unreachably American girls on the table next door.
Christopher Plummer, Lynne Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini are among those who lend voices to this most adult (and often scatological) story of a middle-aged gay man's discovery of the love he spent his life searching for — in the form of an ill-behaved German Shepherd (or Alsation, as they're also known). The animated My Dog Tulip to screen at the Toronto Film Festival
In the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington a middle-aged woman with a weather-beaten face and a brown wig sits on a milk crate demonstrating against US foreign policy - as she has done for the last 21 years.
Peering out at them from her dry, dehumidified office, the stout middle-aged human female pushed back her hydrophobic cap and smiled at her visitors. Drowning World
As a middle-aged baby boomer, I am certainly not exempt from the wishes and dreams of the anti-aging movement.
He finds a way into the heart of the middle-aged experience, from all kinds of angles.
I am at present a middle-aged man of a broadish build, in cords, leggings, and a sleeved waistcoat the strings of which is always gone behind. Doctor Marigold
For audiences at the Liverpool Playhouse it is difficult to imagine anyone who could portray the bored middle-aged housewife so well.
Middle-aged men threw their Thermos flasks in the air; young women jigged; the many children at Old Trafford dreamed, ‘That could be me.’
A middle-aged man materialized from the terrace as if from the wings of a stage. AMAGANSETT
They walked on, talking trivialities, two middle-aged men with lives in their hundreds of thousands in their keeping. LOHENGRIN
Nearby, a troupe of middle-aged women in cowgirl outfits performed a dance to Frank Sinatra’s rendition of “New York, New York.” Map Quest
I noticed as the day wore on today that some of these people -- and there are some that are teenage boys, some of them middle-aged men -- for the first time, they were waving kind of disconsolately at us as we drove by. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003
Informed that they were a middle-aged forty, they doddered, trembling with ague and spoke their lines in quavering falsetto. FAIRYLAND
A suave middle-aged Italian dressed in apres-ski clothes, sitting on a couch with a burning fireplace behind him, came into view. Rama Revisited
she exercised to avoid that middle-aged spread
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile. Oscar Wilde
The middle-aged man continued speaking before I could answer.
All contained the remains of young or middle-aged men. Times, Sunday Times
The men, middle-aged and raddled by the inevitable broken roads they have travelled, struggle to come to terms with their lives and damaged relationships.
The guest was a thickset, strong-looking middle-aged man with grey hair and moustache.
Mr. Lee is now dallying with younger women, and the middle-aged Ching is desperate to reverse her fading looks and retain her husband's interest in her.
And amidst all the teenage jeers and overall ballyhoo, one serious middle-aged man said, ‘I want to believe’.
She had been sold when he first beheld her, and should, he muttered austerely, have been ticketed the property of a middle-aged man, a worn-out French marquis, whom she had agreed to marry, unwooed, without love -- the creature of a transaction. Beauchamp's Career — Complete
Sometimes there was a wry little aside to leaven the mix, such as a comment about the unflattering effect of the fashionable ultra-short men’s coat on a middle-aged courtier of ample girth, or the tendency of a two-foot steeple hennin those tall cone-shaped head-dresses worn by great ladies at the time to poke people in the eye. Daughter of York, by Anne Easter Smith. Book review.
Extreme sports has become shorthand for "cool" to middle-aged filmmakers obsessed with wealth.
The structure, alternating between Strike, the teenage clocker, and Rocco, the middle-aged detective, is unusually supple--Price doesn't give away all the information to set up a dramatic irony between the two, instead leaving the reader in the dark so that neither character becomes a dupe in our eyes. Reading away.
His fan base is mostly middle-aged ladies.
Three middle-aged men hold their fags in their mouths as they casually toss their plastic chips on to the numbered grid at their fingertips.
The researchers say that this may be counterproductive with middle-aged women. Times, Sunday Times
To American eyes he was indistinguishable from any other middle-aged peasant, and American efforts to catch him—such as orders to “arrest every fat Filipino of about forty years and hold until identification is proven”—were unsuccessful.7 Throughout 1900, Malvar and his partisans stalemated American efforts to pacify Batangas and impose colonial government. Between War and Peace
A chubby middle-aged man reclining naked in the hall would presumably have upset other guests. Times, Sunday Times
Seemingly phased out of boxing through a combination of age and lack of opponents, Toney now seeks to become a middle-aged star in mixed martial arts, beginning with a catchweight contest with former three-time heavyweight champion Couture, and ending with an unlikely shot at Lesnar's super-sized belt. Elliot Worsell: The Lights Are on and Lesnar's Home
The archetypal gay wedding portrait -- a pair of middle-aged women or paunchy men looking uncomfortable in rented outfits worn at the wrong time of day -- is destined to be hung in the same gallery of dated images of social progress alongside snapshots of flappers defiantly puffing cigarettes and Kodachromes of African Americans wearing dashikis. When You're Desperate
I can only imagine the difficulty of a middle-aged woman getting a divorce in the fifties or sixties.
The tensions of the Nixon presidency were replaced by the plain vanilla administration of a friendly, middle-aged, middle-class man from the Middle West.
It focused on the human material that has become Houellebecq's trademark subject: the love lives of sex-starved, bored, middle-aged mid-level bureaucrats.
He celebrated his 46th birthday on stage in Philadelphia last night, where roughly 20,000 middle-aged women reliving their youth sang Happy Birthday to the tinily buff Bon. GUESS WHO IS 46 AND LOOKING FABULOUS? | Best Week Ever
Imagine if Wolfe had written a novel in which an investment banker runs over a middle-aged steelworker.
You kind of like to imagine you've got the funk, can still manage it a bit... when did middle-agedness creep up on me? In which I am Officially Aged.
He still looks remarkably buff for an embittered, middle-aged alcoholic.
They try to reach out to younger customers without alienating the middle-aged beer drinkers who are their core customers.
The asker is a middle-aged woman, and one of about 50 people who turned up to the Edmonton Art Gallery for a guided tour of the traveling show.
He's a stoutly built middle-aged man with an intelligent face.
It looks like the exhibition résumé of a middle-aged, internationally successful artist.
‘I'm a teetotaller, meself,’ declares the middle-aged Belfast woman seated opposite me.
There can be few more pathetic or disturbing sights on the highway than a middle-aged man in a crammed three-door Colt trying to outgun a Lexus.
That's his euphemism for the paunch so characteristic of many middle-aged, desk-bound executives.
‘I'm a teetotaller, meself,’ declares the middle-aged Belfast woman seated opposite me.
Alejandro Ferretis plays a middle-aged painter who has retired to a secluded and primitive village to commit suicide (this hara-kiri is perhaps a key to the enigmatic title).
Almond's heavy eyeliner and camp androgyny made middle-aged men, in particular, so uneasy that they suddenly discovered pressing engagements in their potting sheds.
They are a hell-broth of ideas to provoke coronaries and hair loss in middle-aged civil servants.
The proprietor was a middle-aged woman with dyed hair and a small, mean mouth, tight as a spring-loaded purse. TANK OF SERPENTS
I wondered, as I body-popped beside him, what the DJ thought of this middle-aged bloke in a sensible woolly jumper and pressed trousers, pogoing like a demented rhino.
Focusing on the assumption that boomers will tend to "de-risk" their savings by selling equities for bonds as they approach retirement, the paper looks at the ratio of middle-aged Americans aged 40-49 building equity to the older grouping aged 60-69 shifting toward safer fixed-income bonds. Analysis: Baby boomer fears cast another pall over markets
As they plough through the water of a plush north London swimming pool, their arms flailing to Beyonce and Rihanna like hippos in a disco, the 15 or so middle-aged women eye the comic in the studio next door as he demonstrates the throwaway oversway that led to the Strictly Come Dancing judges awarding him an impressive 27 points out of 40 for his waltz. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Middle-aged and pot-bellied, RON GODFREY challenges a luxury York fitness club to trim him down…
Behind us, a middle-aged couple began to dance, a gentle rhythmic shuffle which seemed to catch on amongst the audience.
Just a few hundred yards away, however, Bob and Roseanne, a middle-aged couple who declined to give their surnames, were about to start a door-to-door canvass for the president.
His fan base is mostly middle-aged ladies.
The shop was owned by a very hip middle-aged woman named Edith Frucci, who everyone affectionately called Dickie. Me, The Mob, And The Music
And, far from being teenage tearaways, the typical offender is a middle-aged white-collar worker who probably drinks lager.
All middle-aged people suffer from slowed-up powers of cognitive ability, but that does not mean that we are all going to descend into the pit of Alzheimer's.
Steve Jones, then a student at University College London, recounts how he was approached by a stooped middle-aged American with a straggly beard and wild hair who told me, with great intensity, that he had a hotline to Jesus. SuperCooperators
While on the hunt for a new job, she becomes fascinated with the middle-aged manager of a middle-aged clothing store and pesters him into hiring her.
Eventually a middle-aged man and his teenage son sidle up to the bar to drink the complimentary wine included with admission.
I've just got to go and schmooze those disgusting middle-aged men over there, because yup, lucky me, I am indeed an actress. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
A little later, queuing forlornly towards U.S. customs and immigration, a tall, middle-aged man — Canadian passport, je regrette — passed the time by clipping his fingernails. O tempora, O mores
The waiting room was mostly empty, containing only a middle-aged couple and three teenagers.
A middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a tree crashed down onto her car.
What a conventional, middle-aged attitude he has to life!
There is a lubricious side to him too, which, if anything, plays better now that he's middle-aged. Times, Sunday Times
Finally, you settle onto a couch and smile faintly at a middle-aged woman who is reading a paperback on the loveseat nearby.
Nobody is too concerned that a Hollywood heart-throb is playing someone who in real life was barely 5ft tall and looked haggardly middle-aged when he was barely out of his teens.
The third new Roger Hall play of the year is a comedy about four middle-aged women who embark upon their big OE a few years later than normal.
It presents as a slow growing, solitary , asymptomatic, purple-red papule or plaque in young to middle-aged adults, often on the trunk or limbs.
As he made his way to the back door of the rich man's house, he thought briefly of the wolfhounds that the now middle-aged bachelor had owned.
The middle-aged con artist partners up with young two-bit purse snatcher Fiona, played by Liane Balaban.
Frankly there's something a little creepy about the middle-aged Orsino mooning around his studio, painting likenesses of the nubile Olivia.
The screaming was coming from a middle-aged woman in trainers and a tracksuit. Times, Sunday Times
A middle-aged couple strolled by them on the promenade deck. THE ONLY GAME
She guessed that he was a linkboy, hired by the middle-aged couple who walked at his side to light their way through the dark streets. THE TIME QUAKE
A study of Tunisian women in Morocco showed that older women categorically use diphthongs/aw/and/aj /, while middle-aged women alternate between diphthongs and monophthongs.
The lovely Liesl is played by a pasty, paunchy middle-aged man who gamely glides through "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" like the dreamiest of teenagers, "Climb Every Mountain" is the anthem not of a Mother Superior but of an angsty popping-and-locking b-boy, and "Something Good," in which Maria and Captain Von Trapp confess their love, features three pairs of lovers, two of them same-gender. Kris Wilton: The Sound of Music Like You've Never Seen It
She married an affable, middle-aged businessman.
'Doctor Who ... has ... made sci-fi -- once the domain of pizza-faced speccy boys and middle-aged men named Timothy who iron their socks and still live with their mum -- acceptable, if not downright glamorous.' The Lensman's Children
As ridiculous it sounds to knock out Cougars because of its popularization as a term for lascivious middle-aged women, I actually can understand why the board didn't want the term. Forbes.com: News
Sake and shochu, traditional Japanese drinks that were once derided as old-fashioned and the tipple of boozy middle-aged men, are enjoying a boom among trendy young drinkers.
Many of her precinct captains had met or exceeded their targets for bringing out their core support of middle-aged and elderly women. Times, Sunday Times
A middle-aged man in a long, khaki jellaba walked in and his mouth dropped open. Times, Sunday Times
I had one middle-aged student who stubbornly refused to castle, saying that his King would be trapped in the corner and checkmated.
Young and middle-aged blokes see the doc much less often than women and elderly men. The Sun
He stands, red jumpsuit plunge cut to expose his hairy, middle-aged chest.
Johanna, a charmless middle-aged woman is sending furniture to a man she's been corresponding with and who she believes is intending to marry her.
It belongs to a friendly, middle-aged man loitering in his garden. Times, Sunday Times
It's a comfort blanket for the middle-aged. Times, Sunday Times
A middle-aged man could not help himself and said to them, ‘Girls, stop yelling!’

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