Sentence examples for sensible adults from inspiring English sources

And in Dahl's stories the kinds of elaborate schemes that children are forever concocting — and that sensible adults are forever rejecting as impractical or dangerous — yield triumphant results.

Mr. Bittman doesn't say what most sensible adults already know: that parents are ultimately responsible for what is on their dinner table.

And being consumers and parents and sensible adults (in the main) themselves, advertisers have long understood that to even try to abuse their powers of persuasion would be a very short-sighted strategy indeed - hence the UK's responsible and responsive system of advertising self-regulation.

Once you've lived for a year in halls, only the brave will stay partying amongst the fresher's for a second year, the rest of us decide that we're sensible adults who want to rent out a spacious house away from the trivialities of the young and hapless freshers.

A lot of otherwise sensible adults tell me they find Facebook weirdly addictive.

Those cameras, however, could never capture the germination of the idea; the bout of lunacy that would compel otherwise sensible adults to build such a machine.

But we need an honest, sensible, adult debate".

So I did what any sensible adult child would do.

But there must be a way to get sensible adult sexuality back into Times Square entertainment.

It was simply too hot — about 100 degrees — for any sensible adult to venture out.

BEIJING — Like any sensible adult, the Emperor Qianlong planned ahead for his retirement.