full-grown

Example Sentences

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The best way to estimate the full-grown size of a piglet is by its parents, Rosen said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

The swan, full-grown by then, still slept in their son’s bedroom.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

Her play, about a lonely, full-grown man with an imaginary friend who drinks away his life at a tiki bar until he is aided by some residents of his small town outside Rochester, New York.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2024

All in all, the researchers examined the vertebrae of 10 threshers, ranging from an embryo to full-grown adults over 13 feet long.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

And then I’m twisting and wriggling out of his embrace, returning to my full-grown size and person, my full-grown knowledge and revulsion and hatred.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson