dotage

How To Use dotage In A Sentence

• The medal that came along with it meanwhile will, Larsson said, be brought out and looked at when he is in his dotage to remind him of his achievements, the Swede baulking at the suggestion he might be tempted to gift it to a close one.
• Apart from the 1927 portraits of Atget in his dotage and a single snapshot of him in middle age, we have no access to Atget's face, not in his prime.
• That this is not so is very apparent from any number of reports which can not be dismissed as anecdotage.
• I've groaned through leaders' speeches tight with tearjerking vacuities, faux-human anecdotage and coy phrasemaking. Times, Sunday Times
• This is a sentence that, in my dotage, is far less likely to pass my lips and fingertips than it once was, back when I was positively dripping with vim and vigour.
• The problem with that, unfortunately, is that in my dotage I have rapidly fading memories, and rapidly fading images in my brain of who I did, and how what and when I did what I did, never mind why.
• What exactly am I paying taxes and National Insurance AND a private pension for if I then have to pay extra tax to be cared for in my dotage, which is also on top of all the extra "stealth" taxes I am paying now (petrol, VAT taxes on savigs etc) plus the extra ones dreamed up to plug the hole in the national budget. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
• He looked forward to a gentle decline into an eccentric and amiable dotage, his twilit years untroubled by chore or challenge.
• Coarse and mischievous - but never too much - his is the good-natured rebellion we all aspire to in our dotage.
• As petulance and lust belong to the young more than to the old, yet not to all young men, but to those who are not virtuous; so that senile folly, which is commonly called dotage, belongs to weak old men, and not to all. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome