How to Use grown in a Sentence

grown

adjective

• It's a job that requires a grown man.
• The winds are fierce enough to blow a grown dog off its feet.
  — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
• Harlins broke free of the grown woman’s grip and put the juice on the counter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2021
• McIntyre missed the mark a bit, as any grown man would.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 22 June 2022
• Some grown man hit a girl in front of both of us, in front of her and in front of me.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• The attack was home grown — too close to home for Mullen.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025
• Being a queen is a grown woman’s job, and not for the faint of heart.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
• As a grown man in my mid-40s, I’ve been called a Disney adult.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• Healthy, full-grown lake balls haven’t been seen here since 2013.
  — National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2016
• Lot of low things the Prophet had seen but never a grown man punch a child.
  — Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Aemond, on the other hand, seems to be a full grown man on the show at this point.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Oct. 2022
• The world is forced to watch a grown man crawl around in a diaper.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 May 2021
• On the last page, Rash’s son is a grown man, and sits next to his dad, who is bald with a gray beard.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• The chill of his hands on parts of their bodies where no grown man’s hands should be.
  — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC news, 12 May 2025
• Mary Ann, 77, his wife of 54 years, was fine, as were the couple’s three grown kids.
  — Alfred Lubrano, Philly.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• But that’s what made Heaton, the mom of four grown sons, the perfect choice to play Carol.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• This is how a grown man, in the 21st century, comes to believe that the Earth is flat.
  — Damon Young, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• And me, as a grown woman, having to wash up in — at a sink (sighs).
  — CBS News, 26 Feb. 2022
• But just over time, the game’s grown and evolved and spaces need to get bigger.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
• So why did a grown man decide to take his wife’s last name?
  — Sean Wellington, Essence, 30 Aug. 2019
• On a full-grown pig, the cut totals just around one and a quarter pounds.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2021
• Strengths: Is young for a prospect but already looks like a full-grown man.
  — The Kansas City Star, kansascity.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Four feet is a good height for full-grown snow warriors.
  — Sally Walker Davies, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2014
• There was once a kid who watched TV, and then a grown man settling in to my first job.
  — F.h. Buckley, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2022
• My mother is from Trinidad and met fall for the first time as a grown woman.
  — Junauda Petrus-Nasah, Star Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• In the wrong director’s hands, the show could seem too grown up for kids and too corny for adults.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
• Cut to a grown man (that’s me!) on a London sidewalk near tears.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
• Would a slice of lab-grown turkey writhe in my mouth the way a slice of a once-live turkey seems to?
  — Wired, 27 Nov. 2019
• The football field offers him simplicity, even amid the chaos of 11 grown men chasing him.
  — Cam Inman, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
• Two of Harold’s three wives were there, his grown children, a handful of friends and colleagues: whoever could make it so far, in such haste, to see Harold put to rest in his shroud.
  — Nicole Krauss, The Atlantic, 6 July 2025