dotage in English

noun
1
the period of life in which a person is old and weak.
you could live here and look after me in my dotage
synonyms:declining yearswinter of one's lifeautumn of one's lifeadvanced yearsold ageeld
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Below are sample sentences containing the word "dotage" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "dotage", or refer to the context using the word "dotage" in the English Dictionary.

1. He has dotage because of old age.

2. He is in his dotage.

3. Is this how we want to spend our dotage?

4. Caducity (usually uncountable, plural caducities) Dotage or senility

5. Merlin fell in a dotage on the damsel.

6. We have to look after grandfather now he's in his dotage.

7. Control of Cuba will formally pass to brother Raul , who running the country during Fidel's dotage.

8. What Lord Denning's Spectator interview in his dotage had revealed was unguarded language.

9. From then on, he regarded his blindness as God's special dotage.

10. Even in his dotage, the Professor still sits on the committee.

11. Thurmond is as mean in his dotage as he was in his younger days.

12. Sometimes the kids talk to me as if I'm in my dotage!

13. I'm not in my dotage yet ; I can still drive to Gilly.

14. We all need to work at forgiveness and acceptance right into our dotage.

15. 14 Sarah moved back in with her father so that she could look after him in his dotage.

16. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

17. And don't sign him into his dotage and whine about his getting old later.

18. Japan, then, could plausibly glide for decades into a splendidly comfortable – even enviable – dotage.

19. Synonyms for Caducity include senility, dotage, age, old age, second childhood, senescence, agedness, elderliness, oldness and declining years

20. It used to be said also as a related taunt that with the onset of dotage, Anecdotage tends to creep in

21. It is as though they could not wait to sink into a dotage spent in permanent contemplation of their childhood.

22. Betroth Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a Betrothed. From the Cambridge English Corpus The two women to whom he is either Betrothed …