How to Use adult life in a Sentence

adult life

noun

• At just 18, Quinn seemed to have his whole adult life ahead of him.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• The species' adult life only lasts about four to six weeks.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2024
• Jack hasn’t spent much of his adult life in the 3rd District and got into the race late.
  — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 June 2024
• Much of her adult life, in some ways, Gilbert ran from Laura.
  — Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
• Even in my adult life and my new family, most of us are artists.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• No one—or almost no one—dreams of living an adult life from a tent.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
• Then came the response that set Leydon on a course that’s consumed most of her adult life.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• Duncan Crabtree-Ireland has worked for the union for most of his adult life.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
• People have been predicting the death of the necktie for about 50 years, or most of my adult life.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
• For the first time in his adult life, Stetson Bennett IV spent a fall away from football.
  — Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 28 May 2024
• Henry IV is said to have taken only two baths in his adult life.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• Bell, who survived a 1997 bout with colon cancer, has spent most of his adult life helping that cause.
  — Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 28 July 2024
• The younger Mills was born with glaucoma, had poor eyesight for much of his adult life and went blind in the years before his death.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Cataldo Maria made a choice two years ago as a high school senior that shaped the beginning of his adult life.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2024
• Erin has struggled with addiction for much of her adult life.
  — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2023
• There’s no reason to think Biden will leave, as he’s craved the presidency his whole adult life.
  — David Mark, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 July 2024
• For most of her adult life, Stewart had avoided watching the movie that launched her onto the public’s radar.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
• My father possessed many virtues but for most of his adult life sobriety was not one of them.
  — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
• Josh fought every single day for most of his adult life, for his life, but this past Sunday, the challenge was too great.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2024
• At 7 feet tall, Brad Miller’s adult life has been spent towering above most others.
  — Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• Chandler has lived in cities with failing air quality grades for most of her adult life.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• There are no longer many career ladders set firmly in place early in adult life.
  — Laura Vanderkam, WSJ, 30 May 2023
• Whitmer, who is fifty-one, has worked in the capital for nearly her entire adult life.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• My mom is from Amsterdam, and so my mom has been a cannabis smoker pretty much all of her adult life.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 June 2024
• He has been entangled in the legal system in one way or another for most of his adult life.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• The Body Remembers, her first album in 20 years, was a statement about adult life, love, and renewal.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023
• To some extent, Netanyahu has been preparing to fight this war his entire adult life.
  — Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
• So being raised your whole adult life in San Francisco, not ideal.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• She was bullied horribly in her youth by a girl named Julia (Nicole Lecky) who returns in her adult life at the worst possible moment.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
• His accounts of adult life do not shy away from humiliation and defeat.
  — Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024