precocious

How To Use precocious In A Sentence

• her child behaves precociously
• Dororo's main character Kou Shibasaki (The Sinking of Japan) as the woman warrior Dororo, who was a precocious street child and self-styled "greatest thief in all of Japan".
• a precocious achievement
• He shows a precocious interest in the opposite sex.
• Operating a cash-poor shamus practice in Edinburgh, occasionally bringing along his precocious daughter from a broken marriage, Brodie is clearly more of a doer than a brooder. Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Walking Dead, Case Histories and More!
• As a boy, Freud was intellectually precocious and an extremely hard worker.
• Of the two latest biographers, it is Nicholas Roe, a professor of English at St Andrews University, who writes most expansively about the poet's ancestry and precocious development as a poet.
• Too much time, too much energy, too much passion had he put into his battle to become the First Man in Rome, to stand by tamely and see the luster of his name dimmed by a precocious aristocrat who would come into his own when he, Gaius Marius, was too old or too dead to oppose him. The Grass Crown
• Some may consider it all irresistibly smart, rather than merely preposterous and precocious in equal measure.
• He treats us to a long discourse on "banded mail", the full-faced bucket helms are probably fifty years too hi-tech, the use of a barrier in tournament is a tad precocious. Zornhau: Past Lives: Ronald Welch's "Knight Crusader"