grown person
Example Sentences
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As a grown person now I understand what people put on Trane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
“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
Pop music isn’t exactly predicated on bold expressions of authenticity—there is no reason why, in 2019, any grown person should be griping about the relative “realness” of pop stars—and stadium tours are always tirelessly rehearsed.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2019
Finally, I rounded a bend and there he was stumbling towards me, wild-haired and one-gloved and nearer hysteria than I have ever seen a grown person.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
