How to Use come of age in a Sentence

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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
• Schneider came of age in a time when gay bars were essentially destinations for safety.
  — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In this new suspenseful mystery that’s also an examination of our country’s racial history, a girl comes of age in post–Civil War Virginia as Reconstruction collapses.
  — Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026