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

Emma Thompson plays a trepid, uncertain woman who has spent her entire adult life believing pleasure simply wasn’t for her. —Jennifer Shanker, Flow Space, 24 Nov. 2025

Early in his adult life, during a particularly dark period with addiction, James went to jail in connection with drug and alcohol use. —Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 17 Nov. 2025

Indeed, throughout her adult life, Coppola, who died in 2024, at the age of eighty-seven, was known primarily through her husband, the Oscar-winning auteur Francis Ford Coppola, and later, too, her daughter, the director Sofia Coppola. —Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2025

Now, pain-free for the first time in her adult life, Miller hopes her story will encourage others to listen to their bodies and keep searching for answers. —Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for adult life

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