come of age

phrase

: to reach maturity

Your class has come of age at a moment of great consequence for our nation and for the world …

—Barack Obama

Examples of come of age in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But some Americans are susceptible to believing it, particularly those who came of age during the Cold War, when communism was shorthand for our gravest national threat. — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Brand New Day shows Peter leaving his more naive teen years behind and truly coming of age. — ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026

Kids born from 1997 to 2012 came of age during what researchers describe as the postdigital condition, where the option to be online is constantly and pervasively available. — Kathi Inman Berens, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026

Growing up in Queens as hip-hop came of age, Rozell Manely Brown desired nothing more than a drum machine to back up his rhyme. — Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Rhymes for come of age

• alienage
• assuage
• backstage
• bocage
• downstage
• engage
• enrage
• leafage
• messuage
• offstage
• onstage
• outrage