grownup

How To Use grownup In A Sentence

• John Edwards today said that after watching his rivals slug it out last night, he's proud to represent what he's calling the grownup wing of the Democratic Party. CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2008
• impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup
• The height change means that while you went through it with a slight stoop when you were young, you'll be going through in a duckwalk as a grownup, and considering that you do the equivalent of a couple of blocks underground your legs will be wobbly as hell by the end of it. Back from radio silence
• Many are postponing things like marriage, family, buying a house and finding a so-called 'grownup' job. Is The Economy Delaying Adulthood?
• February 17th, 2010 at 7: 29 pm tombaker says: harmando thinks using teenage girl text-message acronyms is awesome, because he’s a sober and serious, intelligent grownup, and not a hopeless poser loser waving his boogerfinger around in territory that does not welcome him or his “ideas”. Think Progress » Confused Karl Rove Falsely Accuses Obama Of Having ‘A Little Bit Of Confusion’ About Stimulus Jobs Numbers
• What good is it being a kid if buttinsky grownups are going to take all the fun out of it? Healthful Treats for Hallowe'en? It's Sacriholidayous
• I saw many other birds in my month on Fair Isle, far rarer ones: I found a woodchat shrike, a streaky youngster with a grownup hooked bill, that should have been on the other side of Europe; I became adept at listening for the soft calls of common rosefinches, the blandest of birds with the beadiest of eyes; I knew where a buff-breasted sandpiper blown from North America roosted. A Year on the Wing
• Our policy, FYI, is that if you’re telling a grownup because there’s actual danger, then that’s good. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
• They have a grownup son, Joe Oliver Maltman, who has evidently inherited his dad's breezy, sarky, unreflective sense of humour, and whose still-unmarried condition concerns the parents not one whit. Another Year ? review
• Once we got to the "grownup" section, I was disheartened to find this the only evidence that Charlie had been there: West Hollywood Book Fair