grown-up

Example Sentences

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It feels daring for how it wants to actually examine the emotional costs of contemporary grown-up life, bringing wincing laughs of recognition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

Their grown-up children often aren't interested in taking on the family venture, he adds.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2026

With its exquisite controls—a knob to wind the clock, a key to wind the bell and a button to silence the alarm—it was a bewildering cross between jewelry and a grown-up appliance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Bang has limited contact with her grown-up daughter, and fell into severe depression after major back surgery, spending hours alone staring at the ceiling in pain.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

She is older than a teenager and yet not quite grown-up.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari