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 Roget, Peter Mark
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 Rinehart, Mary Roberts
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.