How to Use come of age in a Sentence

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• Schneider came of age in a time when gay bars were essentially destinations for safety.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2024
• It’s been a long time coming Swift’s music has served as the soundtrack to a generation of adolescent heartbreaks and coming of age crises.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
• For the CEOs who came of age in the 2000s, Freakonomics functioned less as a book and more as a training ground.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Since the Baby Boomers came of age in the 1970s, each successive generation has fared worse than the last, some researchers say.
  — Jennifer Liu ashton Jackson, CNBC, 29 June 2026
• Well, the nation came of age industrially after the Wright brothers' historic flight and has been a leader in aerospace tech and exploration ever since.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 4 July 2026