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:

  • Looked at the other way, paying the extra $54 to avoid the added risk (and leaving aside other advantages of grown-up airlines, such as the delicious meals, roomy seats, punctual departures, on-board golf courses, etc.), puts an implicit value on your life of about $46 million.

  • It's the time-space of grown-up commitments, where the Gen-Xer has to live--at least part time.

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

  • As a grown-up, he drives through the northern English countryside beside a frostily pissed-off blond wife, whom he subsequently takes from behind in the kitchen of their country cottage while his young son, clutching a stuffed animal, wanders their way.

  • 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.


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