How to Use precocious in a Sentence

precocious

adjective

• She was a precocious child who could read before she went to school.
• A precocious musician, he was giving concerts when he was seven.
• What is a Cold War, the show seems to say, to a group of precocious, wiseass kids?
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 9 July 2019
• In the new film, all this precocious young fox wants is to help his hero save the world.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• The calm, precocious girl who went into the surgery was not the same one who emerged.
  — Joshua Lang, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• Maybe there was only room for one black-and-white movie with a precocious kid in the race.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• The dialogue in a scene like this one has a precocious snap.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• Alperen Şengün one of the league's most precocious post players.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Dec. 2022
• Bumpy road to Paris Clinching a spot at the Olympics was not easy for the precocious teenager.
  — Martynas Ruseckas, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
• Up next is a precocious Princess Charlotte, in a navy blue dress.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2020
• Her friends laugh, and a precocious, 2-year-old toddler stops by and waves hi.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
• The wisdom out of the mouth of a precocious 3-year-old has, from then on, been the family's motto.
  — Michelle Matthews, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• A precocious tot who plays with matches gets burned … to death.
  — David L. Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
• Tala, the adult, agrees to what this precocious 8-year-old child says and abandons her.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• The hope for this fractious family comes in the form of young Bud, played by the adorable, precocious 10-year-old Traum.
  — Mitchel Benson, sacbee, 30 Mar. 2018
• Flaherty—always the precocious one of the bunch—moved the quickest.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Brees' right flnk will be fine with the precocious Ramczyk in the starting lineup.
  — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Luckily, his magical sleigh, reindeer and precocious elves know how to get him through the night — and the rest of the year.
  — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
• Across town, Maya Zabari, a precocious Stuyvesant graduate, was just ready to get in an Uber and go.
  — Aaron Randle, New York Times, 5 July 2019
• Here is the one about the precocious tyke who convinced her family to take a chance on a deaf puppy.
  — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
• But the time spent at home, and with their precocious daughter Mercy, seems to help reunite the couple.
  — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2023
• Beyond merely precocious, her voice carries the weight of one who’s seen some things and lived to tell about them.
  — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
• Thomas has a precocious nature to his game, as a 6-8 forward who can play inside and out.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2017
• That will be followed by Jude Law and a starship of precocious tykes in Skeleton Crew.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• There may be a few too many precocious kid scenes, but the tone is warm, the cast is likable and the ‘80s details are a nostalgic kick.
  — oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2019
• Gabi is a force of nature, or as much a force of nature as a very precocious, purple-haired 10-year-old can be.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• Noah, a precocious artist, has sketched the exact same building.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
• Jonathan Safran Foer tries his hardest to write like a precocious twelve-year-old girl.
  — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 11 Feb. 2010
• Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, Einstein was a precocious child.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• On Berger's desk is a poster of sketches and notes outlining every era designed by one of her precocious granddaughters.
  — Bryan West, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024