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

Even if the next emanation is discovered within months, Tibetans face a perhaps two-decade interregnum while his successor comes of age. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

Melissa Gilbert starred as young Laura, who came of age on the American frontier through periods of great hardship and joy. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

Young people want to pursue jobs that will catapult them into the elite—which today means that people coming of age want to be influencers. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Big sister Mary is balancing the extra responsibilities of being the eldest with coming of age on the prairie. — Sabienna Bowman, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026

Rhymes for come of age

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