grown-up

Example Sentences

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But for the admissions essay, the dry and uninspired robot voice turns one teenager after the next into only the archetype of a teenager, writing like a grown-up.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

This year will add another to the tally - with his two grown-up sons, who are also rail workers, out there with him.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2025

So I set out to create it: a blueberry muffin with a seasonally appropriate soul — deeper, darker, more fragrant, a little more grown-up.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025

Yet the ceremony keeps on chugging along, remaining, in the view of filmmakers behind the sort of grown-up movie fare that’s becoming an increasingly endangered species, an essential marketing platform.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

Charlie and Jamie had always sort of assumed that there was some grown-up in charge of the financial system whom they had never met; now, they saw there was not.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis