grown person
Example Sentences
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As a grown person now I understand what people put on Trane.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025
“It’s a terrible thing when a grown person does not belong to herself,” she wrote to them.
From New York Times • May 3, 2022
“I had just ‘talked back’ to a grown person.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021
In short, he’s a grown person, with grown-person problems—and he’s beloved.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2019
He did recognize, albeit faintly, that he was too long, and too big, for this bathtub—he looked like a mostly grown person playing at being a kid.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
