grow up
Example Sentences
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So the notion that some people will grow up and become others is a help, in the sense of knowing where we are in time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
It’s such a beautiful community that I feel very grateful that I’ve been able to grow up doing what I love.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Kyle, Mr. Vance and I didn’t grow up privileged.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
"If I think of the childhood that I had, I was one of the last generations to grow up playing outside without a mobile phone, and it's very different now," she adds.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
“If that’s the way he’s going to grow up, I wish he’d stay a boy,” she thought, with a curious sense of disappointment and discomfort, trying meantime to seem quite easy and gay.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
