How To Use Grownup In A Sentence
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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
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impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup
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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
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Many are postponing things like marriage, family, buying a house and finding a so-called 'grownup' job.
Is The Economy Delaying Adulthood?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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* He was on a panel and did some book-signing that I wanted to catch, but by the time I got over to the "grownup" section he was long lone.
West Hollywood Book Fair
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She cocked her head to one side with a sly smile, like a toddler coaxing a treat from a grownup.
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I think of these guys as the nerds of the foodyard, esculent equivalents of the brilliant, sensitive child that the grownups made the mistake of praising to the rest of the class.
Archive 2005-01-01
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The term "grup," borrowed from a Star Trek episode, was used in the article to describe grownups (Gen X leading the charge) s ...
Schuyler Brown: Another Casualty of the Financial Crisis: Extended Adolescence
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Can't wait to see/read more about that 'grownup' book you're working on!!!
Exploring Cynthia's Attic | The Stiletto Gang
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If you love a milkshake, and the prospect of iced coffee is enough to turn a dour day upbeat, it's time to embrace the affogato—the Italian version of a grownup soda-fountain drink.
Your Guide to the Best in Summer Food
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I was an underage teen sneaking into grownup punk clubs, high on moshpit fumes (and, truth be told, lots else).
Boing Boing
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That means that the so-called grownup in the race is gone.
CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2008
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Over the course of 2009 I have read a wide range of book, from children's books to what one could say is "grownup" fantasy series.
Cindy's Top 2009 Book List
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first superhero movie for grownups.
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The plus side is that the film should get decent word of mouth and will be the grownup movie-going alternative for pretty much the next month.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office: Puss in Boots Tops Again with Stunning Hold, While Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas Slightly Underperform
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It was really frightening for a 9 - year - old boy to confront a grownup.
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We're missing the so-called grownup, the adult in the Democratic Party, so expect these two to go at each other tonight -- Kitty.
CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2008
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But as a grownup, Mattlin says, his disability can make the holiday feel unsettling BEN MATTLIN: I never thought about a connection between disabilities and Halloween til I learned of the once-common fear of deformities - the limping, hunchbacked, hook-handed or one-eyed monsters of ancient fairy tales and old horror movies.
On Halloween, Celebrating Differences Of All Types
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The Diplo-produced Beat of My Drum hinted at her leftfield ambitions; the slower, funereal I and the heartbreaking fame parable Sticks + Stones sounded grownup, introspective and happily odd.
Nicola Roberts: Cinderella's Eyes – review
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I wonder if she thinks it’s funny that her little flav is taking time out from going to a gay pride parade or anti war march to type onher grownup somputer.
Think Progress » Coulter on 9/11 Widows: ‘I Have Never Seen People Enjoying their Husbands’ Death So Much’
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The term "grup," borrowed from a Star Trek episode, was used in the article to describe grownups (Gen X leading the charge) stuck on the precipice of adulthood.
Schuyler Brown: Another Casualty of the Financial Crisis: Extended Adolescence
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Read the comments as many YA writers weigh in TEV's initial insistence that reading YA means you don't want to be a member of "Grownupland.
The Elegant Variation: When The Bar Has No Lower to Go...Choices*
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And so to show they too are indeed fiscally responsible grownups who wouldn't think of instigating such a financial crisis, the headline progressives more than agree that the federal deficit is indeed a very dangerous long term menace that demands appropriate attention.
Warren Mosler: Modern Monetary Theory: The Last Progressive Left Standing
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By the time LL COOL J shows up -- apparently he's been paid to merely to drop in and walk thru the room -- most of the real grownups seem sensorily saturated, and I've begun to ask myself "Why do I exist?" over and over again.
Alex Gersten: Saying Yes
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Those "sitting on their hands in stony silence" were the minority who, while they may not have agreed with the party in power, were grownups with the decorum and decency to respect the office of the president.
Town hall anger echoed in Congress
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I ran into her recently and she was very surprised that this 'grownup' outing remained so strong in my memories, ending at what was it?
Ruddigore
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That translates into big doors, making it easier to get in and out of the back seat, and plenty of rear legroom for grownups.
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For grownups fated -- or maybe even compelled -- to see "Revenge of the Fallen," a few bright spots and oddities may relieve the sustained-release idiocy.
Machines vs. Machines in Machine-Made 'Transformers'
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I thought this govt was going to try to get along. pls get over the fact that Parliament was pro rogued and put on your big boy pants and be a grownup. now is not the time for partisan games and instability. we need to move forward for God's sake! stop the fighting.
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There is a whole category of ersatz adults who've mistaken the apparent staidness of the grownups (who they observe from the outside) for the qualifying characteristic of adulthood and tried to skip the scary merry-go-round.
Zornhau: The Middle Ages
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The grownups who stayed for the funplex party missed our cocktails, though!
They Say It’s Her Birthday | Her Bad Mother
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The grownups just laughed and commented on our intelligence and fluency.
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i will never have another first child. there are thunderclouds building in the sky and i already know what i will tell my child when we see these clouds together. see those clouds? they are gray. the color of the sidewalk. of lolo's hair when he doesn't color it. of grandpa's hair under his hat. grownups call it "cumulonimbus". daddy calls it "buggy cloud," or
Fathering
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Er, theres no debate - the old ones were great FILMS, watchable by anyone, and these new ones are garbagy pulp B-movie nonsense only watchable by kids or grownups who turn their brains off.
George Lucas Talks STAR WARS with Jon Stewart on THE DAILY SHOW – Collider.com
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Thinking about the danciest foyer I've ever clicked my heels in reminds me of other family gatherings, where the grownups would sit around the table, playing cards and gambling for coin.
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather.
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We'd better straighten up and act like grownups, and I mean soon, or somethin 'bad is gonna happen, and its not going to discriminate between Red and Blue when it comes to dealin' out the big hurt.
DNC blasts Kyl in new web video
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About the time we should have been taking on grownup responsibilities we made a fetish of resisting the Establishment.
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There'd ought to be children's words and grownup words, -- that's what I think," said Sue, decisively; "but what does 'backslider' mean?
Homespun Tales
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“Heavenly Blue” morning glories sufflated by this new breeze come upon us now, coincident with a ritual the French actually have a word for, “la rentrée” * — applying equally to grownups back from extended vacations and schoolchildren beginning their semester.
“The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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The numbers speak for themselves: a YA bestseller is likely to be moving ten times as many copies as an adult SF title occupying the comparable slot on the grownup list.
SF Tidbits for 7/2/08
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As the grownups gave their speeches, the bushy-haired and Gumby-limbed Hamish Linklater—of last summer's "Winter's Tale" and "The Merchant of Venice"—kibitzed with Lauren Ambrose, who starred in "Romeo & Juliet" in 2007.
All's Well at Theater Gala
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In these light and funny pages, grownup Ann looks back with unmerciful self-deprecation on herself as she was in the early 1960s, and the result is a book that children ages 8-14 can enjoy as a kind of genial historical artifact and that their parents can read with affectionate winces at the quirks and obsessions of long-ago childhood.
The Scary Future, the Embarrassing Past
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The Diplo-produced Beat of My Drum hinted at her leftfield ambitions; the slower, funereal I and the heartbreaking fame parable Sticks + Stones sounded grownup, introspective and happily odd.
Nicola Roberts: Cinderella's Eyes – review
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He has to work with a grownup, which is Nancy Pelosi.
CNN Transcript Jul 30, 2008
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When Max repeatedly butts his head against the real world and runs through the dark night streets in his filthy wolf costume, a thudding foreign yelp-chanting playing underneath, I remembered that sense of unencumbered emotion in childhood and how foreign the materiality and obstinance of the real world and grownup interactions were.
Has the Wild Rumpus Begun Yet?
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I would post something coherent about wider society's contempt of fandom because it's play engaged in by adults (I think it was The Joy Of Sex which said bed was the only time grownups get to play), the relationship between fan fiction (play) and writing for publication (work), the contempt of each age group for the next younger group, and the hierarchies of literary snobbery in my head, but frankly I'm too knackered. *goes back to bed*
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Rational Review
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Before I had made my dinner, I already knew who the winners were, and how Esperanza Spalding turned an entire generation of Justin Bieber fans into the world's whiniest demo within moments quick aside: can we give this Bieber kid his own version of Twitter already, so the grownups can keep playing without being interrupted by his tween minions?
Tara Dublin: How Twitter Has Made the Tape-Delay Obsolete
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Someone should also gently mention to Tilson-Thomas that the crowd that shows up for Takemitsu probably doesn't need the grownup version of the 'This instrument is called the bassoon! lecture.
Stravinsky and Takemitsu at the Symphony
