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,” says Liubov, a surrogate mother in Ukraine, “when a grown person does not belong to herself.”
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
She had all the knowledge then of a grown person, she’d enter into conversation with men and women as clever and full of tricks as someone of eighteen.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
