coming of age
Example Sentences
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“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
The company's new show is an ambitious production of a 2006 Broadway musical, a challenging coming of age story about a group of young people in a strict nineteenth century community.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 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
