grown-up
Example Sentences
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Last year, when Chizzola decided to start selling matcha from a sort of grown-up street-corner lemonade stand, he chose a patch of sidewalk at Franklin Avenue and Talmadge Street, two blocks from the bridge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Big brother" was one way the Fleming-McCullum dynamic was referred to, and there was a sense that England now have a grown-up in charge, following the freewheeling of McCullum.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
He was “very close” to joining the New York Jets, but he “had to make a grown-up decision,” Mr. Hill said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I don’t feel like a grown-up yet, and now I pay a mortgage, and fix pipes and clean gutters.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
“All shall be well, kiddo,” she says—a grown-up nonanswer.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
