How to Use come of age in a Sentence
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While coming of age, David was curious about his brother’s lack of friends.
—Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026
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The Ravens are banking on a Bateman bounce-back and young receivers coming of age.
—Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 27 July 2026
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These trips are classified by mode (overland, sea) and type (survival, exile, coming of age).
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
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As many creators have recently told Deadline, coming of age takes place across one’s lifetime.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2026
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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
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Over the next ten years, Israa comes of age across borders and cultures in this stunning documentary.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
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Brand New Day shows Peter leaving his more naive teen years behind and truly coming of age.
—ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
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Kon-Tiki’s readers came of age as citizens of the emerging sovereign states.
—Ksenia Tatarchenko, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2018
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Don’t miss this intimate exploration of modern connection and coming of age.
—Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
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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
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Hip-hop wasn’t the only growing vogue—punk was coming of age, and New Wave was becoming more popular.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
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Three new technologies, all coming of age at the turn of the millennium, allowed much of the planet to see the same image, concurrently.
—David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026
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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
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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
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Davis came of age at a time when the political nerve center of Broward was the creaky old county courthouse on the banks of the New River.
—Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
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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
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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
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George Joseph came of age during the Great Depression, a calamity that left with him with a stated desire to always have plenty of work to do.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
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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
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My parents were born during the Great Depression, came of age during World War II.
—Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026
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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
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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
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The companies are betting that as the next generation of fashion enthusiasts comes of age, an even larger wedge of their wallets will go to secondhand fashion.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
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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
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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
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Gen Z came of age watching a pandemic overwhelm hospitals, saw clinicians speak openly about moral injury, and watched colleagues leave medicine entirely.
—Frantz M. Berthaud, STAT, 7 July 2026
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Some young, really emerging superstars, and then also some players that have kind of come of age — and then some really good role players, too, that give them some interesting platoon options.
—Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 13 July 2026
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After a couple of nondescript seasons, Baines came of age in 1982, hitting 25 home runs and driving in 105.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026
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View this post on Instagram Ashlee Simpson Simpson and Panettiere came of age in the same era of aughts Hollywood.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026
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Members of Gen Z are coming of age during a period when conversations about mental health and personal well-being are considerably more public.
—Jeff Leblanc, The Conversation, 25 Sep. 2026
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