adult life

noun

: the period from the time one became an adult

I've worked here all of my adult life.

Examples of adult life in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Musselman grew up watching the Cowboys, and he’s spent most of his adult life coming to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on race day. —Shari Rudavsky, IndyStar, 2 July 2025

As for Pitt, his Sonny Hayes is a perfectly serviceable archetype for this: a one-time wunderkind driver wrecked by injury whose adult life becomes a morass of preposterous risk with minimal upside. —Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 20 June 2025

Amazon has several different options, ranging from infant life jackets to toddler puddle jumpers to plus-sized adult life vests, all suited for a wide range of activities. —Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025

My legs: muscular during my years of playing varsity soccer and basketball and running track; long and sinewy in my later adult life; milky-pale every winter, yet sunburned often and easily in the summer. —Laura Neilson, Vogue, 30 May 2025

Rhymes for adult life

• afterlife
• pocketknife
• alewife
• birdlife
• folklife
• housewife
• jackknife
• loosestrife
• midlife
• midwife
• nightlife
• penknife