plural dotages
: a state or period of old age especially when accompanied by mental decline
People who obviously pity my dotage have a well-meant but disagreeable habit of reminding me that Sophocles wrote his best plays at 80.—
Bernard Shaw
Bernard ShawThe last time I saw Bette Davis, she was in her dotage, the painful ravages of cancer and a paralyzing stroke cruelly evident.—Rex Reed
Rex Reed
Examples of dotage in a Sentence
he's now in that stage of his dotage where he has trouble remembering the simplest things
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Helen must have told it to herself, in her dotage, long after the ships had sailed home from Troy.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2024
Only in the last decade or so, as Jerry tiptoes into his dotage, has the organizational chart come into focus.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
Apparently some of us nodded off in our dotage.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2020
The conversation, held at the start of his career as a singer, raises one of the many questions that Diamond faces both in his youth and in his dotage.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2024
Only in the last decade or so, as Jerry tiptoes into his dotage, has the organizational chart come into focus.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
Apparently some of us nodded off in our dotage.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2020
The conversation, held at the start of his career as a singer, raises one of the many questions that Diamond faces both in his youth and in his dotage.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
See all Example Sentences for dotage
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“Dotage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dotage. Accessed 8 Oct. 2024.
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