How to Use growing pains in a Sentence

growing pains

plural noun
  • There were bound to be growing pains, and Payne knows it.
    Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2022
  • There will be many growing pains, on both sides of the ball.
    Rahat Huq, Chron, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Even with the first-year growing pains, NBC was all in on Singh.
    Leena Tailor, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The growing pains appear to have had time to fade into the past.
    al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Yet the Bucs have progressed through the growing pains.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
  • There are going to be growing pains — and a lot of them.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • This would not be the last of the young industry’s growing pains.
    Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The emphasis on song craft may have added to the growing pains.
    New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • For Benjamin Behrooz, these growing pains are all part of the long game.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • But throughout the growing pains and the injuries, the Colts managed to learn how to win.
    J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 5 Feb. 2022
  • But with the network’s growth have come growing pains as well.
    Declan Harty, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The climbing world, on the other hand, has had to deal with some growing pains.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 4 July 2021
  • This book makes the growing pains a tad smoother to navigate, adding in some LOLs along the way.
    Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe the scams and hacks are just growing pains of a young industry.
    Colin Kirkland, SPIN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The core of last year's outstanding unit is gone and there will be growing pains.
    Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • In 2021, Google Stadia has passed many of its growing pains.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The rookie has had his growing pains, but things are starting to click for him.
    Tony Holm, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
  • There will be growing pains like there are for any freshman in any sport.
    Mike Anthony, courant.com, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The young Rockets will face plenty of growing pains and be back in the lottery next spring.
    Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
  • There’s a lot of growing pains that come with being a rookie.
    Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2020
  • There are a lot of themes that are relatable, like growing pains.
    Eva Recinos, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • The Pelicans, whose two young stars are in their early 20s, are still in the growing pains stages.
    Christian Clark, NOLA.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Have there been any other growing pains that have come as a part of this journey?
    Regina Cho, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The rest of the season was a mashup of growing pains and blowout losses in Year One under Tucker.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2020
  • An influx of new faces, and new talent, comes with growing pains.
    Dallas News, 8 Nov. 2022
  • So coach Kevin Smith felt there might be growing pains early on.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Learning how to use a new tool always comes with some growing pains.
    K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 15 Dec. 2022
  • So no one knows what Witt Jr.’s growing pains will look like quite like his father.
    Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • By her 20s, however, Ms. Downs felt not just older but wiser, and suspected her stories could help ease the growing pains of others.
    Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Guards Fletcher Loyer and Braden Smith should also improve as sophomores after some growing pains.
    Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2023

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