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Example sentences for: grown-ups

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Their differences from Elvis (more literate and lovable, less slick and racially ambiguous) were what made their similarities with Elvis (purveyors of courtship music for teen-agers, a scandal to grown-ups) work.
A "glorified Mighty Ducks for grown-ups" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ) pretty much sums up the reaction to this tale of a small-town hockey team that gets a chance to play the New York Rangers.
I suspect that what Britten is known for most of all is A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; but perhaps music for children does not count for much in dictionaries for grown-ups.
Maybe one of the reasons Rowling hit it big with grown-ups is her refusal to drum in lessons.
I thought it would gently help those young people to begin to accept the idea that they are growing up and should soon become grown-ups, or adults.