Sentence examples for grownups from high-quality English sources.

• Grownups stuff Christmas stockings.

• Way too often the child is made to feel guilty or frustrated or responsible for the actions of the grownups around them.

• But it is most certainly a hotel for grownups: the crowd I observed in the elevator or lobby was consistently an older one.

• All season long, acoustic musicians provide a soothing soundtrack, and local artists host demos for kids and grownups, alike.

• The grownups remained grownups.

• Overnight oats are a breakfast for grownups who get things done.

• Still, the detective couldn’t help but marvel at the grownups’ depravity.

• The grownups are checked out, and an aggressive student named Donald rules the scene.

Use grownups in a sentence.

• The children of those grownups are now grownups who name their children Max.

• But is protecting privacy the right choice when somebody does something that brings sadness to thousands and tears to the eyes of children and grownups?

• With ‘Sweeney Todd,’ I used to go up the aisles during the second act when he murders everybody, and the grownups were horrified but the kids were loving it.

• Throughout four excruciating years of Britain behaving badly, the EU were the grownups, firm and patient negotiators with our rabble of infantile lawbreakers.

• The New Yorker has called the idea "dorms for grownups," but the idea of co-living is touted as evidence of the "sharing economy" trends driven by millennials.

• “He immediately gets you to rethink everything from soil to air to how to create a garden in an old dresser drawer ... and if he swears a few times along the way, we’re grownups.

• After dinner, the grownups began hashing out the most difficult details of caring for seven adults and nine children ranging in age from 6 to 14 as the deadly disease spread around the globe.

• While Mr and Mrs Twit’s ghoulish pranks reach feverish extremes, Audibert thinks the story of these squabbling grownups will register for children who have seen their own parents “under pressure” during lockdown.

grownups sentence examples

• I was a bit disappointed that books for grownups—and even books for older kids—rarely had any pictures, and was quite relieved to discover that, with cartoons and comic books, you could read illustrated stories into adulthood.

• Cornerstone soon set about making its own VR films, designed to help adopters, foster carers, social workers, teachers and judges understand the impact of attachment-related trauma on a child, “and the response we need from the grownups”.

• The social-media personality covers the next generation of N.B.A. superstars in a way that’s aimed at young people instead of grownups, serving as a proxy for fans who want to be friends with young athletes like Zion Williamson, Trae Young, and LaMelo Ball.

• Hollywood has been on form where family films are concerned lately, with Frozen and Inside Out proving that children can handle complex themes, sometimes better than their parents if the emotionally ravaged grownups we spotted leaving Toy Story 3 are anything to go by.