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
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
I felt silly and wrong calling a grown person Brother So-and-So or Sister Such-and-Such, but thanks to Cecile, we now had brothers and sisters we had never before laid eyes on.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
