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
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The collaboration had been a long time coming — Jakob says people have been floating the idea for his entire adult life.
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Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite having spent his entire adult life in the public eye, he is measured, analytical, and almost intentionally unexciting.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
Still, the virtue of crate training puppies is espoused here in the United States, where crating often continues into a dog’s adult life.
—Kelly Conaboy, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Even in my adult life and my new family, most of us are artists.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
To look at his adult life from afar is to see someone searching for something — connection, camaraderie, love, justice — and believing he’s found it, again and again.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
Cataldo Maria made a choice two years ago as a high school senior that shaped the beginning of his adult life.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
Prosecutors said Washington was a career criminal who had been in and out of prison for much of his adult life.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
But that has not deterred Karen Danielyan, a 20-year-old from Tver, about 100 miles northwest of Moscow, whose entire adult life so far has been spent with Russia at war.
—Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite having spent his entire adult life in the public eye, he is measured, analytical, and almost intentionally unexciting.
—Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
Still, the virtue of crate training puppies is espoused here in the United States, where crating often continues into a dog’s adult life.
—Kelly Conaboy, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Even in my adult life and my new family, most of us are artists.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
To look at his adult life from afar is to see someone searching for something — connection, camaraderie, love, justice — and believing he’s found it, again and again.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2024
Cataldo Maria made a choice two years ago as a high school senior that shaped the beginning of his adult life.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
Prosecutors said Washington was a career criminal who had been in and out of prison for much of his adult life.
—Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
But that has not deterred Karen Danielyan, a 20-year-old from Tver, about 100 miles northwest of Moscow, whose entire adult life so far has been spent with Russia at war.
—Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
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