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
  • Seated next to him is that same girl, who made a miraculous recovery and is now a grown woman.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 9 July 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

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