Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: grown-up
IPA transcription: [ɡɹ'oʊn,ʌp]
Usage examples
  • "He was a widower with a grown-up daughter when I took him to church.
  • It was a nice, remote, bosky place where no prowling grown-up would be likely to intrude.
  • He spoke with the bitterness that always characterised his statements of the injustice of the grown-up world.
  • She read everything that came her way, including, as the context amply proves, the grown-up novels of the period.
  • In five years they are fine, fat grown-up Oysters--that is to say, if they have not been dredged up from their bed and sent to market.
  • They had at least one topic on which they could converse intelligently with any grown-up person, and in which they were really superior to most.
  • She could not see, but she could plainly hear the grown-up Bees talking outside, and for a while she lay quite still and kept her thoughts to herself.
  • They always liked to swim in company with a grown-up of buoyant temperament and inventive mind, and the float offered limitless opportunities for enjoyment while bathing.
  • Sylvia, feeling quite grown-up, made her pretty curtsey, and smiled with delight at Mr. Waite's greeting, as he led her toward her mother and, with another polite bow, gave her the seat on the sofa.