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

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

The behavior runs counter to what most people assume about Gen Z, the roughly 14 to 29-year-olds who came of age on smartphones. — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026

The story follows a group of teenagers coming of age in mysterious 1981 Los Angeles while a serial killer wreaks havoc throughout the city. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 28 July 2026

The Ravens are banking on a Bateman bounce-back and young receivers coming of age. — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Rhymes for come of age

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