coming of age

Example Sentences

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“I was trying to reconcile the absence of my own dad with my own 30-year-old self coming of age and thinking about becoming a dad,” Vargas explained.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

“Those three years in the Peninsular War were a coming of age for William Miller,” Mr. Hemming writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

That tile so far has proved to perform well and be power-efficient, Altavilla said, and therefore “really signals a coming of age of 18A for Intel.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 25, 2026

He played the titular Dawson Leery, a soft-hearted and naive high schooler coming of age in a small Massachusetts town.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2026

At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien