Sentence examples for be outgrown from inspiring English sources

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be outgrown

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To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.

  • Poor boys often have to wear whatever a big brother has outgrown.

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But these will never be outgrown.

For clothes that will be outgrown in, ooh, six months.

You rarely succeed, yet the urge for completeness is a kind of love, doomed to be outgrown but not forgotten.

So this was an example of that: my "original conception" (i.e., the dream and its associated meaning) had to be outgrown — or built upon.

Back then, too, it suffered from the "historical illusion" that it was "something to be outgrown, a juvenile and undeveloped form".

In fact, from childhood on my idea is that Pennsylvania is a nursery place, to be outgrown and left behind as quickly as possible.

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Sometimes metaphors are outgrown.

"He's outgrown this playpen.

They are outgrown or become stale.

Some conflicts are outgrown rather than resolved.

"He's outgrown this stroller," Mr. Beecham said.

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