grown person
Example Sentences
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She was, in fact, very drawn to my grandfather’s lover, a beautiful woman who was kind to her, the only grown person who ever seemed to notice how remarkable and creative she was.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2023
“It’s a terrible thing,” says Liubov, a surrogate mother in Ukraine, “when a grown person does not belong to herself.”
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
“I had just ‘talked back’ to a grown person.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021
Punishment inflicted on us by an individual, on the other hand, is a thing that no grown person endures or is expected to endure.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
Been scared most my life of Judd Travers, and here I am, half his size, talking like a grown person.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
