How to Use grown in a Sentence

grown

adjective

• It's a job that requires a grown man.
• The winds are fierce enough to blow a grown dog off its feet.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
• Harlins broke free of the grown woman’s grip and put the juice on the counter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• McIntyre missed the mark a bit, as any grown man would.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 June 2022
• Some grown man hit a girl in front of both of us, in front of her and in front of me.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• Being a queen is a grown woman’s job, and not for the faint of heart.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• As a grown man in my mid-40s, I’ve been called a Disney adult.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• Lot of low things the Prophet had seen but never a grown man punch a child.
  — Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Aemond, on the other hand, seems to be a full grown man on the show at this point.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• The world is forced to watch a grown man crawl around in a diaper.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 May 2021
• On the last page, Rash’s son is a grown man, and sits next to his dad, who is bald with a gray beard.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• This is how a grown man, in the 21st century, comes to believe that the Earth is flat.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• And me, as a grown woman, having to wash up in — at a sink (sighs).
  — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2022
• On a full-grown pig, the cut totals just around one and a quarter pounds.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• There was once a kid who watched TV, and then a grown man settling in to my first job.
  — F.h. Buckley, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022
• Editor’s picks Now, the Kid’s a grown man, living in the big city.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
• Two of their three grown children live in apartments next to their home.
  — Dirk Sutro, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• Set in the 1980s, it’s about Rose Byrne’s Sheila, whose husband, Danny, is a grown child.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
• Payne and his wife, Elaine, have now been married 45 years and have a grown son -- as well as a new roof.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2021
• In 2016, Buzz was now a grown man and a seasoned pro who had escaped death three times.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
• The other writers were more grown up about it when their jokes were cut.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 2 May 2021
• The couple shares two grown children, Trasa and Scott, and eight grandsons.
  — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 24 July 2022
• In that time, Floki has gone from kitten to full-grown cat.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE.com, 2 July 2021
• The ride did many things for us as a family with grown children.
  — Selika Josiah Talbott, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• For grown men who are used to playing sports, babies are tough.
  — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
• In sum, this week find a good spot to harden off your indoor grown plants.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 May 2021
• You've been married for nearly 30 years and have two grown kids.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• The Raksins have two grown daughters: Hannah Grace, a banker and Tabitha, a teacher.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2022
• His grown kids would come on Saturday to take him out to eat and maybe spend a couple of hours with him.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
• Snag yourself a pair too for a grown mommy-and-me outfit moment.
  — Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024