Use "grown-up" in a sentence
grown-up example sentences
grown-up
1. How can a grown-up woman
2. They are not really friendly to Peter, who had a mischievous way of stealing up behind them and trying to blow them out; but they are so fond of fun that they were on his side to-night, and anxious to get the grown-ups out of the way
3. Bible to a grown-up, only with some biblical stories and
4. A very grown-up Daniel
5. children"--little Peggy and her mother always spoke of the grown-up
6. grown-up woman," while Harry spreads out on the hearth a goodly store
7. ” She looked at this grown-up in a cowboy costume, who had the audacity to say with hayseed casualness that the emotional horror Truman suffered was a welcome gift
8. One could have said that things were ticking along with military precision if it wasn’t for Steve who was roaming the stands making lewd gestures, not being able to hold his water like a grown-up should, making faces and obscene gestures at passers-by, and generally blending in seamlessly with the rest of the fair-going crowd
9. So we act in ways to please grown-ups
10. I assumed that we’d rent a small flat near the university, like everybody else did, and looked forward to this as finally an experience of grown-up freedom
11. In later years I walked among my grown-up children, as I thought of them, caressing each one and telling each how proud I was of it for having grown up so beautiful, so courageous and strong
12. Of how many, children or grown-ups, can that be said? Una Meredith is sweetness personified
13. Narayan had indicated that he liked her and wished to marry her (when they are both grown-up); she liked him as a friend but consented to it nevertheless
14. am the grown-up-with-a-ton-of-therapy version of the angry,
15. again, only with the added advantage of having no grown-ups to
16. Grown-ups can take
17. Tabby looked forward excitedly to when the grown-ups in the house would move the tree house across from Tindel to her
18. Children believe and readily absorb much of what grown-ups tell them about the world and these ideas may have become a part of your partner
19. But when these same children become grown-up men and women, would it not be folly for them to cling to these earlier and misconceived notions regarding their father? As men and women they should now discern their father's love in all these early disciplines
20. grown-up crow will feed their aged mothers and the baby sheep will kneel
21. So is a child kneeling by a bedside, or a grown-up kneeling in the pews at church
22. With the help of Gled who merrily chatted away the whole time, mother dressed me in my grandfathers splendid clothing and we made our way to the square, others, decked out in their finery, were going the same way and the journey became a procession, the variety of the colours the candidates were clad in resembled a sky full of rainbows, to make their sons look respectable most of the parents had used up more than one seasons work, that was how important it was to them that their son became a man, this year there were thirty-eight candidates for the coming of age ceremony and being the same age we all knew each other and began to play around pushing and shoving, full of high spirits and confidence, knowing in our innocent childish courage that none of us would fail in our rite of passage, the square was crowded with villagers all in their best attire, and a party mood rippled through the crowd, with everyone chatting away and laughing with their neighbours, children played their games in and out of the grown-ups legs
23. After we had eaten, the priest gathered all the youngsters to sit in front of the grown-ups, and then he told everyone else to sit, when they were all comfortable he then asked me if I would do them the honour, to stand up and relate everything that had happened on my quest
24. Often he would treat me the same as he would a grown-up
25. Young children possess this power of involuntary attention to a greater degree than grown-up people
26. He had hoped that she would stay here with him, sharing his glory as the only grown-up wizard on the planet
27. It was just that I’d convinced myself that if I was seventy, then my grown-up twins had been lobbying those high up in local government on my behalf, and it was deflating to learn that they had done nothing of the sort
28. what the grown-ups said
29. him to stay but terrified that his last remaining grown-up friend would desert
30. A grown-up troll
31. Anyway, how could grown-ups live in a world without rules?”
32. just stupid grown-ups who haven’t learned anything yet
33. In fact, we were really proud of ourselves and felt incredibly grown-up
34. An individual with a grown-up Lotus and awakened soul becomes God-like as he can create love just by his thought
35. not be grown-up either
36. As history unerringly demonstrated, as a grown-up, man tends to grouse about the perceived wrongs of the past instead of learning from the wrongs of the history
37. As the grown-ups go on with this dirty business, the
38. There’s no hope for the victims, nor for all yet to be violated, until the “grown-ups” who run things can say the ugly words for those ugly deeds out loud
39. Grown-ups and kids
40. have a grown-up daughter unmarried in his house
41. His parents were doctors and he’d grown-up in a five-bedroomed house, complete with gravel driveway and a garden that you couldn’t quite see the bottom of
42. Similar scenes could be observed in the world of grown-ups
43. He told me how grown-up I’d become and that he wanted to be my ‘special friend
44. Even this one, this well-bred, well-taught bright being, was so unimaginative that she actually saw no reason why a man's grown-up daughter
45. The clearness now in his life if only he had not done that! Nobody sofa-ridden in it, no grown-up thwarting daughters, and himself vigorous, distinguished, entirely desirable as a husband, choosing with the mellow, yet not too mellow, wisdom of middle life exactly who was best fitted to share the advantages he had to offer
46. It was his family that dated him: his grey-haired wife, his grown-up daughters
47. He was a kindly stranger appointed by the Church to walk hand in hand with her along the path of grown-up life
48. Someday, if she continued intrepidly in this career of maternity which seemed to be marked out for her, she, too, would be happily pouring out coffee for a grown-up and successful man-child, all her impatiences and pangs long since forgotten
49. You clearly couldn't have a grown-up man-child to love and be proud of if you hadn't begun him in time, he had at some period or other to be begun
50. Dobson, and the hôtel, in which English Church services were held, and which was at that moment, though the season was over, being stayed in by several representative English spinsters, and a clergyman also from England with a wife and grown-up daughters, most respectable nice ladies who all took him out every day twice, once after breakfast and once after tea, for a little walk--the hôtel decided, putting its heads together in the manager's office, that it would, using tact, encourage the Dobsons to depart