Sentence examples for grownup concept from inspiring English sources

"What do you mean?" I cannot tell you how many times in any given week I end up in exactly this place: stuck between a grownup concept and a kid who wants an explanation that he can understand.

("Grownup" is a favorite concept of John Boehner; his preferred term is "adult," as Peter J. Boyer points in his piece this week.

Two of its executive producers are Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and I wonder if the film was not originally conceived as some sort of high-concept comedy with the grownup witch hunters perenially squabbling among themselves?

The director, Sam Mendes, has taken a pop concept and solemnized it with Freud, which is not, perhaps, the best way of turning Bond into grownup entertainment.

Grownup movies".

A grownup one.

I'm a grownup.

"I played grownup — a child's idea of grownup.

Or just a grownup.

She looked like a grownup.

"It's the grownup aisle".