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How to use grown up in a sentence

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And then, one day, you discover that those cherubic, goofy child stars have grown up.
We've got money to burn and whole industries have grown up around us because there are just gazillions of dollars up for grabs.
As a kid, or as a grown up, did you keep a diary writing up what you did everyday?
Anyone who's grown up with an alcoholic parent learns to dread celebrations.
A divorced mother of two teenage sons, aged 44, she lives in Belsize Park, having grown up in north London.
It was, for someone who had grown up with rock and folk music, immediately recognisable and attractive.
They were kindred souls, who had grown up together as neighbours, and naturally, had fallen in love.
A whole industry has grown up around recommissioning such systems to restore them to proper order.
Now my brother was telling me we'd grown up within spitting distance of a nuclear dump.
The avid Bantams fan celebrated in front of the Kop where he had grown up supporting the club.
She had grown up with worsted tunics and humble pies, not satin gowns and foreign delicacies.
Now that I am allegedly a grown up I don't actually use a scrapbook for my holiday journal.
He was also not put off by the very grown up thought of having to set up his own business.
She'd grown up in Lafayette, Louisiana, to the sounds of country music and zydeco.
Clause 56, therefore, simply codifies the practice which has grown up and legitimises it.
What I didn't know then was that this form of prejudice functioned as a way to express the values I had grown up with.
Timothy, having grown up on a farm in the country, naturally rose with the sun.
Materials like silver kid and alligator with velvet or crushed velvet linings add luxury touches to grown up footwear.
He seemed touched to learn that a young newspaper reporter had grown up thinking of him as a role model.
With a classic Australian bush drawl and a rolly hanging from the corner of his mouth, he is a born and bred bush kid grown up.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The Poirier boy, in particular, had grown up with amazing rapidity and precociousness.
The land on the east side of the lake had been burnt over, and was now mostly grown up with wild cherry and red raspberry-bushes.
Neither of them had any fear of dirt, and Fan had grown up not merely unkempt, but smudgy.
He wished he'd acted more grown up that night they watched the rain dance at the pueblo.
Thus has grown up the regulation of child labour and the Acts relating to factories and workshops.
Her son who had grown up big, while she grew down little, went back to the family room with her.
Deep in his heart had grown up a purpose of vengeance which only waited an opportunity to crystallise and take a definite shape.
The superstitions which have grown up about Taoism particularly are innumerable.
The plain is now grown up with poplar, hazle-bush, scrub-oak, and whortleberry.
Science will explain to us how it has grown up from the ground, and how all its twigs must have fitting room to expand in.
When he had grown up, he was two years in the service of abd allah Teshtari.
Though caste has grown up again, yet the old regulation is still in force inside the temple of Jagannath at Puri.
Two different types of civilization had grown up on opposite sides of the Mason-Dixon line.
In the beginning the street had been preserved as a museum piece while the cartel city had grown up around it.
The state had grown up around a sanctuary, the god of which was nominally its ruler, the human patesi being his viceregent.
I have a lot containing two acres of land, and it is grown up in live and water oak bushes which are very dense in foliage.
These children, grown up, knew no other methods of training.
The sons of Marcos had grown up and were earning their living.
They are vulnerable, inexperienced and corruptible but they are grown up in many ways.
I'm single now, all children grown up, but three grandchildren who are photographed lots.
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