How to Use grow up in a Sentence

grow up

verb

• About 80% of children in the U.S. grow up with a sibling.
  — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• Shirley grew up in Perrine and loved to fish and play football.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2025
• Bound grew up on the Falkland Islands in the nineteen-fifties.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• They may be all grown up, but Carell said his kids still jumped at the chance to attend the premiere.
  — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• Who knows how these will resonate for those growing up on the DCEU.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2023
• Reiss grew up in a rental apartment on 86th Street and Riverside Drive.
  — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Nov. 2024
• That sums up the politics that many of us grew up with and embraced.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025
• The brothers grew up with a love for melodic ‘60s rock, which has been at the heart of their music.
  — Daniel Kohn, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
• Go back to his teenage years, growing up in Georgia in the early 2010s.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• The siblings grew up in a small town about 30 miles northeast of Tulsa.
  — Emily Weaver, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• Scott grew up, in Santa Cruz, as the third and youngest child of divorced parents.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
• It’s changed a lot, but at times the child grows up not really having a voice.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
• These six-petaled beauties can grow up to three feet in height and thrive in full sun (6 to 8 hours) settings.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 4 Feb. 2023
• Martin grew up in the Palisades, and her childhood home was lost in the wildfires.
  — Christina Binkley, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2025
• His father, who grew up an orphan, smoke and drank with him.
  — Kenan Draughorne, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Does that blow your mind as someone who grew up wanting to play on this stage?
  — Ben Standig, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
• Though based in New York for 20 years, Cameron grew up on a farm outside Glasgow.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
• My dad did have a garage growing up, so that’s kind of familiar to me.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
• Crow gave a wide-ranging speech about growing up with rock’n’roll.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 3 Nov. 2023
• Cox spoke briefly about growing up in Dundee where there were 21 theaters in the Scottish city.
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2024
• But for people who didn’t grow up eating spicy food, not all hope is lost.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Something else that changed as Siwa grew up was her style.
  — Hedy Phillips, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
• The 12-year-old looked all grown up in a blush-pink dress with a purse from mom Victoria Beckham's brand.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
• Wallen grew up singing in church and at a very young age, took piano and violin lessons.
  — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Wolfe grew up in Richmond and went to graduate school at Yale.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The size of a human fist, giant African land snails can grow up to 8 inches in length and 5 inches in width.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2023
• Ana Macho grew up in the house their grandfather built in Caguas and went to public school in Caguas.
  — Katelina Eccleston, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• The 3-year-old looks all grown up in Robert's arms, wearing her pajamas and a pair of red glasses.
  — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• Jones grew up the daughter of artists, so creativity has always been her path.
  — Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 4 Feb. 2025
• Bird flu won’t deter some raw milk drinkers Lucey grew up on a small dairy farm in Ireland drinking milk from the farm's bulk tank, produced by its own cows.
  — Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025