How To Use Come of age In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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If Christ had come of age during the Bush years, Rove would have had him arrested for moonshining.
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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.
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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
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The site of Australia's Federal parliament house was much heralded as a design befitting a nation that had come of age.
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Space technology didn't really come of age until the 1950s.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Lest one be accused of building up the 21-year-old to knock him over, he has come of age in the past four months.
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The internet has finally come of age.
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Fewer still envisaged a triumphal march that would prompt his retirement just when he had finally come of age.
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Recycling is an issue that has come of age in Britain in the last decade.
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It is a necessary reminder: when The Iliad opens, Troy and Greece have already been at war for ten years; mere youths when some of the best fighters first embarked for Troy, they have come of age on blade and blood.
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Printing 22,000 copies in Hindi and 15,000 in Urdu, one of the oldest glossies in India might have finally come of age.
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With the Internet, steganography has come of age.
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He was a bit hit-and-miss in his early hurdles but has come of age this winter.
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A neat spin on the driving test we muggles take as we ‘come of age’.
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While putting up the show it felt like as if these children have come of age ridiculing the blemishes of the society with oodles of satire.
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He proposed a regency council to uphold the validity of Frederick's election until the heir should come of age.
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Gibbie was so satisfied with her appearance that, come of age as he was, and vagrant no more, he first danced round her several times with a candle in his hand, much to the danger but nowise to the detriment of her finery, then set it down, and executed his old lavolta of delight, which, as always, he finished by standing on one leg.
Sir Gibbie
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Only in the nineteenth century did the study of energy come of age, with the invention of the branch of physics known as thermodynamics.
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They agree to do something together and then come of age.
The Sun
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His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
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It's also entirely likely that we have not come of age and I might be the forefather of a hundred generations of priests designated the holy task of worshipping the artefacts.
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The eldest legitimate son in this family has come of age.
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It seemed proof of a number of things, the least important of which being that leather has come of age.
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When John come of age, he will inherit a of money.
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Sometimes I suspected that my uncle liked the frowsty old play because he acted the part of the Father in it, with one scene of tearful rejoicing that his son had come of age at the beginning, one of tearful lamentation when he thought his son dead near the middle, and one of tearful reunion when his son appeared alive and well at the end.
Wicked Will
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His constant lament was that the Tamil stage had not come of age.
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America's working neophytes' unrestrained optimism stems from having come of age in a flush economy and a tight labor market, with lots of highly visible examples of meteoric corporate career arcs.
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Normandy's ugly duckling has come of age.
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So have wearables finally come of age?
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Although other factors contributed to the outcomes in both the Bekaa Valley and the Falklands, the air-to-air missile clearly had come of age.
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His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
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His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.
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Applied anthropology must "come of age" in this kaleidoscopic environment.
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Before the end of the film, Chris must come of age, Deel must be slain, and the bond of brotherhood has to be shown to be the most important in the world.
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Judging by his work here, two or three films down the line, Alex Yang will come of age as a director.
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Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.
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They agree to do something together and then come of age.
The Sun
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The pub singer has come of age - emerging from the taproom and entering the recording studio.
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I had the intense good fortune - or the abject misfortune, depending on your point of view - to come of age in Manchester in 1988, a time that was bookmarked by the lawless, reckless and thoroughly groovy bacchanalia of acid house.
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It seemed proof of a number of things, the least important of which being that leather has come of age.
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