grown person
Example Sentences
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She was, in fact, very drawn to my grandfather’s lover, a beautiful woman who was kind to her, the only grown person who ever seemed to notice how remarkable and creative she was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
“It’s a terrible thing when a grown person does not belong to herself,” she wrote to them.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2022
“I had just ‘talked back’ to a grown person.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
In short, he’s a grown person, with grown-person problems—and he’s beloved.
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2019
She had all the knowledge then of a grown person, she’d enter into conversation with men and women as clever and full of tricks as someone of eighteen.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
