Example sentences for: grown-up

How can you use “grown-up” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But it's hard to read a hand-held computer while on the treadmill at the health club or while driving a car--or, for that matter, while at your grown-up computer.

  • Critics praise director Ken Loach's departure from agitprop filmmaking: "a pleasant surprise--there's no overt political content" just "a delightful, heartwarming, grown-up love story" (Jonathan Foreman, the New York Post ) about a recovering alcoholic in Glasgow, Scotland, putting his life back together.

  • One of the many things I dislike about being a grown-up is the compulsion to have a purpose in life.

  • In their expressive self-effacement, suits make grown-up politics possible.

  • It's terribly tasteful and grown-up, but not half as compelling as musketeer Gabriel Byrne's fervid declaration to foxy Queen Mother Anne Parillaud in The Man in the Iron Mask : "To love you is a treason against France--not to love you a treason against my heart."


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