Example sentences for: grownups

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

  • May the government, in its quest to shield children, restrict the online choices of grownups?

  • Ultimately, then, the justices will have to make a hard choice: sacrifice some shielding of children in order to protect the freedom of grownups, or sacrifice some access by grownups in order to shield children.

  • Or to look at it the other way: Must the courts, in order to protect the freedom of grownups, restrict the government's ability to shield children?

  • Great reviews for this Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy about a low-rent movie-maker (Martin) and his ragtag stable of actors: "Perhaps the funniest movie for grownups so far this year" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Martin, out of desperation, hires a painfully awkward nerd (Murphy) who has no film experience other than being "an active renter at Blockbuster" but who bears a striking resemblance to action star Kit Ramsey (also played by Murphy).

  • But it seems to me that the spillover will always be there, and the court will always have to make the same "hard choice: sacrifice some shielding of children in order to protect grownups, or sacrifice some access by grownups in order to shield children."


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