How to Use maturation in a Sentence

maturation

noun
  • The Cards took a big step in that maturation process this week.
    The Courier-Journal, 13 Jan. 2024
  • This is about maturation and growth from a team as a whole.
    Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Some things take years to come to fruition and maturation.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2021
  • The change of scenery came with a maturation of her work ethic.
    oregonlive, 11 June 2021
  • The drug, called bomedemstat, blocks a protein that plays a role in the maturation of blood cells in the bone marrow.
    Jonathan D. Rockoff, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That’s part of the maturation process in this thing is being able to not let Cleveland beat you two times.
    Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The true mark of a team’s maturation is its ability to close out games.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
  • There is a ton of growth and maturation that comes when someone leaves home and has to figure out life on their own.
    Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • And that, coach Erik Spoelstra said, goes a long way toward showing the maturation of the 2019 first-round pick.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Todd credits this to the maturation of a young front seven.
    Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The life cycle of birth, maturation and death is a given.
    Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • His maturation over parts of eight big-league seasons with the Cubs has been part of Baez’s journey.
    Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
  • That’s not to say Reichel hasn’t shown signs of maturation.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The maturation process for Allen took time after 27 starts in his first two seasons.
    Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2021
  • As mentioned before, this is not the first rye whiskey to get this type of secondary maturation.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 23 July 2024
  • But Preston's on-court maturation took too long, and he was left to watch his final game from the sidelines.
    NBC News, 19 Dec. 2020
  • That’s part of maturation as well—the realization of that and the acceptance of that.
    Angela Dawson, Forbes, 5 May 2021
  • The liquid here is sourced, as the bourbon that’s being produced and aged at the Michter’s distillery hasn’t reached a decade of maturation yet.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 July 2021
  • Are the old timers wringing their hands over these fits and starts of maturation, fretting about where this is all headed?
    Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 9 Nov. 2021
  • This 20-year-old rum was barreled into an ex-bourbon cask and then shipped to the UK for its full maturation.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2022
  • What parts of that maturation have been easy and what parts were difficult?
    TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • After all, that maturation is one of the things that makes scotch whisky, well, scotch whisky (legally it has be matured for three years).
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The Colts know the maturation process for a defensive lineman takes time.
    Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2021
  • This, Maddon believes, is part of the maturation process for a good young pitcher.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2022
  • Every child is unique, and their growth and maturation timelines are too.
    Michelle Pugle, Verywell Health, 2 July 2024
  • Two years of maturation have not done anything to put a dent in how much accomplished and rocking fun her music was right out of the gate.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
  • This is all part of the quarterback maturation process.
    Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The growth of a player’s game is part of the natural maturation process at every level.
    Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Adams called Webb a typical teenager — not a problem but still very much in the maturation process.
    Susan Slusser, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Sincere as a whole is a deeply personal release that highlights Khalid’s maturation.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 6 Aug. 2024

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