in one's prime
Example Sentences
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Adj. adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
In vain he told himself that there were worse things than to be cut off in one's prime, that the tragedy of old age is a long tragedy, with but one end.
From Long Live the King! by Mary Roberts Rinehart
