grow up

Example Sentences

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“I had aunts growing up, who were so talented at collecting hurt feelings at minor offenses,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal

Raised in Newtownbutler in County Fermanagh, Róis grew up in a "very musical household", learning Irish traditional music before studying piano, but she was initially reluctant to sing.

From BBC

If you grow up in a society where schools are closing, why would you be as confident as a member of a growing society?

From Barron's

Ji, born in 1992, grew up in Colorado and Beijing and went to a university in Beijing to study computer science.

From The Wall Street Journal

I grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, in a two-story, white house that shared its driveway with an identical-looking house next door.

From The Wall Street Journal