How to Use grow up in a Sentence

grow up

verb

• About 80% of children in the U.S. grow up with a sibling.
  — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• They may be all grown up, but Carell said his kids still jumped at the chance to attend the premiere.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Who knows how these will resonate for those growing up on the DCEU.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• Go back to his teenage years, growing up in Georgia in the early 2010s.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• The siblings grew up in a small town about 30 miles northeast of Tulsa.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• These six-petaled beauties can grow up to three feet in height and thrive in full sun (6 to 8 hours) settings.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 4 Feb. 2023
• His father, who grew up an orphan, smoke and drank with him.
  — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• My dad did have a garage growing up, so that’s kind of familiar to me.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
• Crow gave a wide-ranging speech about growing up with rock’n’roll.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
• But for people who didn’t grow up eating spicy food, not all hope is lost.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• The 12-year-old looked all grown up in a blush-pink dress with a purse from mom Victoria Beckham's brand.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
• Wallen grew up singing in church and at a very young age, took piano and violin lessons.
  — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Wolfe grew up in Richmond and went to graduate school at Yale.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The size of a human fist, giant African land snails can grow up to 8 inches in length and 5 inches in width.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2023
• Ana Macho grew up in the house their grandfather built in Caguas and went to public school in Caguas.
  — Katelina Eccleston, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• Erik Carrier grew up in Lake Forest, moved away but then moved back to town in 2020.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• He might have been torn between wanting to grow up and be his own man while not wanting to hurt you and leave you alone.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2023
• The United Kingdom wants to become the safest place for children to grow up online.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2023
• But the location was also special for Denise, who’d grown up across the bridge on the American side of the Falls.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Now, a piece of the property where President John F. Kennedy grew up can be yours.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 Mar. 2023
• Abraham grew up in New York and now operates his own law firm called Lichy Law.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 3 Aug. 2023
• Madonna gave the girls her blessing to go forth and grow up (never mind that Britney was 21 and Christina was 22 at the time).
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 13 Apr. 2024
• One of my favorite rom-coms growing up was My Best Friend’s Wedding.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• There’s all this experience that a lot of people didn’t grow up with.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• The brothers grew up in New Jersey, which has no Waffle House restaurants.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• As someone who grew up in the New York metro area, the agenda looked pretty reasonable.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 9 July 2023
• Now, the kids are all grown up and Fuse could be considered something of an empty nest album.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• After all, for the Gen-Zers on the festival grounds, No Doubt is probably the band that their parents grew up on.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 14 Apr. 2024
• This eye-catching tree, boasting a braided trunk, can grow up to eight feet indoors.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 19 Mar. 2023
• Kid Cudi grew up watching Star Trek every night with his dad.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024