Example sentences for: precocious

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

  • The revelation, made in a new biography of Belgium's Queen Paola by a precocious 18-year-old Flemish student, Mario Daneels, shook the image of a royal family famed for its moral rectitude.

  • But while this article tells us that our talented tyke's precocious success is "partly due to his talents and partly due to the abundance of opportunities in high tech fields today," we then learn: 1) He's the son of a venture capitalist; 2) he had trouble getting a job, until some of the partners at the VC firm dad founded hooked him up with Hotmail, one of their portfolio companies; and 3) at Hotmail, he struggled to do the job, but by the end of the summer had written some code they could actually use.

  • With that URL, you could put up a Web page designed by your precocious nephew, sell closeout merchandise from Dress Barn, and the IPO would still price the company at a billion.

  • She is as perky and precocious as Bill Safire and Cokie Roberts say.

  • Solomon sees precocious postmodernism: "[H]ow do you achieve greatness in an age when everything has already been done?


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