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
• The Ravens are banking on a Bateman bounce-back and young receivers coming of age.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 27 July 2026
• These trips are classified by mode (overland, sea) and type (survival, exile, coming of age).
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
• Fans who came of age in the ’90s would get to watch their childhood crush learn a proper quickstep with one of the show’s most beloved pros.
  — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 13 Oct. 2026
• As many creators have recently told Deadline, coming of age takes place across one’s lifetime.
  — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 14 Aug. 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
• Over the next ten years, Israa comes of age across borders and cultures in this stunning documentary.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
• Brand New Day shows Peter leaving his more naive teen years behind and truly coming of age.
  — ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
• Kon-Tiki’s readers came of age as citizens of the emerging sovereign states.
  — Ksenia Tatarchenko, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2018
• That was another change, Elinor learning from Marianne as well, and then both coming of age at the same time.
  — Mya Copeland, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026
• Don’t miss this intimate exploration of modern connection and coming of age.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 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
• 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
• But while Creed-Miles didn’t come of age on Austen, her affection for the material is now quite profound.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• My parents were born during the Great Depression, came of age during World War II.
  — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• For anyone who came of age with those compilations, the appeal is less about owning rare vinyl in pristine condition than possessing a physical artifact from the process that made the music.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 29 Sep. 2026