How To Use come of age In A Sentence
- The nation has been waiting excitedly for Cole to come of age, but the rest of the world has been unmoved by his largely minimal international contributions. Times, Sunday Times
- In a world come of age, we have no luxury of a pious hope that God is either our copilot or an air traffic controller who would save us from crashing into each other.
- If Christ had come of age during the Bush years, Rove would have had him arrested for moonshining. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 30, 2010
- Wave Three began in the 1980s, as Baby Boomers began to come of age, seeking meaning and purpose in their work, challenging old paradigms, and transforming society.
- Japan had come of age in 1894 when, following the example of Great Britain, the various powers had released her from the obligation of exterritoriality imposed upon her by treaties when their subjects were unwilling to trust themselves to her courts. The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power
- The site of Australia's Federal parliament house was much heralded as a design befitting a nation that had come of age.
- Space technology didn't really come of age until the 1950s.
- The free market system has at last come of age and the desirability and need for planned economies such as the welfare state have outworn their use and outstayed their welcome.
- She was referring to the high-minded dreams of young women who had come of age in a time when people walked on the moon, joined the Peace Corps, led the civil rights movement. Big Girls Don’t Cry
- But then, when you put together all these elements, you realize that this rather significant Special Forces operation really indicates that special ops has come of age.
