“It takes time for newborns to reach adult age.”

“A lot of people derive enjoyment from watching adult films.”

“She always took on responsibilities and made wise decisions, showing a mature and adultish demeanor.”

“Her first adultish memory is of a piercing desire, a hunger for her mother, father, and brother that is tinged with fear.”

“He leaned his back against the cold wall and tried to compose himself after this latest rejection by focusing on the techniques he'd learned in a sales course at the adulted center in his area.”

“With all due respect to those great and in some instances even venerable institutions, I must say that our boy needs still to be brought up, that he still needs to be adulted.”

“She was a responsible and mature teenager, often displaying adultlike behavior.”

“By the fourth year most children can speak in adultlike sentences and have begun to master the more complex rules of grammar and meaning.”

“In her plain but adultlike clothes she looked like a teen-age nanny, someone from another country who was underpaid and exploited.”

“And because I knew I was supposed to talk to him like he was an adult, I filtered everything I said and made sure it sounded adulty before it left my mouth.”