Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It wasn’t much better when, at the very unprecocious age of two, I gave vent to an inarticulate utterance which, among those who ought to have known better, passed for speech.

From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

Even the primeval stages of psychic growth are rarely so all-sided, so purely unsolicited, spontaneous, and unprecocious, as not to be in a sense a fall from Froebel's unconsciousness or rest in God.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

We hear little about his childhood, he being a wholesomely unprecocious boy.

From George Washington by Thayer, William Roscoe

This work, printed and sold by W. Belch of Newington Butts, consists of four marine pieces on a sheet, most comfortably unprecocious and as wooden as a Dutch doll.

From George Cruikshank by Chesson, W. H.