grow up
Example Sentences
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Bring in working-age people and a populace can rebalance the retired old with the productive young without waiting 20 years for babies to grow up.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
Kyle, Mr. Vance and I didn’t grow up privileged.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
"If I think of the childhood that I had, I was one of the last generations to grow up playing outside without a mobile phone, and it's very different now," she adds.
From BBC • May 27, 2026
"I had hoped my daughters would grow up in the family home," she said, wearing a pin showing her village.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
