How to Use full-grown in a Sentence

full-grown

adjective

• My family had a boisterous rescue dog, who was full-grown but often acted like a puppy.
  — Deborah Mower, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
• Suddenly, the lion, now full-grown, recognized his former caretakers.
  — Mark Gray, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
• In the end, state wildlife officers killed four wolves from the pack — three that were full-grown and a juvenile who was mistaken for an adult and shot accidentally from a helicopter.
  — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 11 July 2026
• Many of the oysters were full-grown and ready for sale, and together with the cages were worth $20,000, according to the Maine Marine Patrol.
  — Fortune, 31 Dec. 2025
• When the state seal was created in 1950, the designers noted that just as myth tells us Minerva sprang full-grown from the head of Jupiter, California became a state without having to go through a territorial stage.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025