adult

Example Sentences

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And that is when they found a photo of Lucy on Facebook with an adult who looked as though she was close to the girl - possibly a relative.

From BBC

Boxes of the game, manufactured and beloved in France where Van der Bruggen lived most of his adult life, have been sold tens of millions of times worldwide in dozens of countries.

From Barron's

The song and music video — which, let us note, were written, storyboarded and shot by adults — are both bad, but not overwhelmingly so.

From Salon

He has made his daughters pledge their virginity and has monitored his son’s electronic devices to prevent him from accessing adult content.

From Salon

If Valieva could not be held fully responsible for the medication she took because she was a child, then she should not have been allowed to compete with adults, he argued.

From Los Angeles Times