Example Sentences

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There are parents who can maintain the adultness even in the face of the demands of a small child.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019

Is there a sense that we have an additional responsibility that we have to perform normal adultness because the rest of the country has kind of gone off the rails?

From Slate • Dec. 13, 2017

Older viewers may have been able to appreciate Wilmore’s adultness and measured seriousness, but late night doesn’t really care what they think.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 19, 2016

Her parents—minus the wine, the fighting, the suffocating adultness of kitchen renovations and mortgage payments—were good people.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

Adolescence -- N. adolescence, pubescence, majority; adultism; adultness &c. adj.; manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age; flower of age; prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life. man &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark