Words similar to grown-up

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:

One of the many things I dislike about being a grown-up is the compulsion to have a purpose in life.
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."
' But a grown-up in his 50s, in a suit, being nice?
acts," says Entertainment Weekly . Newsweek predicts it could turn out to have "the touchy-feely feminist vibe of a grown-up slumber party ...
The "friend" sounds like the kind of person we used to call "a user" in junior high, or "a narcissist" in grown-up psychological circles.