How to Use premature in a Sentence

premature

adjective

• Too much exposure to the sun can cause the premature aging of skin.
• Her premature death at age 30 stunned her family and friends.
• Our tribute to the premature ends that broke our hearts this year.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024
• All this to say that the question of broad adoption may be premature.
  — Arun Shastri, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
• From your premature birth to your love of Skate Boarding, Dirt Bikes.
  — Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• Then that started to seem premature, because … well, the war in Ukraine.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Bronx has a high rate of premature deaths and ranks as the unhealthiest county in New York.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Use your time wisely, a premature act will set you back.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 6 July 2024
• This also helps the skin fight off premature fine lines and other signs of aging.
  — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2024
• These premature signs of spring were spurred by a mild winter across much of the country’s eastern half.
  — Jude Coleman, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2023
• The way Harnisch sees it, optimism that stocks will go back to new highs in 2023 is premature.
  — Lu Wang, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
• If his 54-point night is a sign that Thompson is back, reports of the Warriors’ death might have been premature.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2023
• While some people argued the shift in metrics was long overdue and a sign of the times, others said the move was premature.
  — Arielle Mitropoulos, ABC News, 25 May 2022
• But the idea that Wall Street is going to capture the lion’s share of the crypto market still feels premature at best.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 5 June 2023
• McBride is careful not to take the news as a premature victory lap.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 13 June 2024
• He was born two months premature and wasn’t expected to live.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
• Sure that's a bit premature since Greinke is still an active player but the message was clear.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 23 May 2022
• Injury from loud sound results in premature aging of the ears.
  — Cory Portnuff, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• The researchers give one major reason why this would be premature: Yeasts are kind of weird.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2022
• Anything before that is premature in the 2020 world of running backs.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2023
• What fans — and the Roy siblings — didn't expect was a premature death early in the final season.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2023
• Newsom isn’t wrong to think talk of his successor is a bit premature.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Most marquee free agents agree to deals within the first hours — or at least days — of the new league year, but Irving said all talk about his plans is premature.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
• Bob’s wife, Mary, had gone into premature labor in the 1980s with their twin boys, and one died in the hospital two days later.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff Eli Saslow, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• The story played well on Fox News and made liberals mad and that was enough for a premature consensus to form.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2022
• But with prospects for the arena seeming to dim as the Feb. 29 game approached, there were concerns that the move would look like a premature victory lap.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2024
• Here’s her story… I was born three months premature in 1978, when the chances of preemies surviving was very rare.
  — Kr Liu and Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2024
• Some specific animal fats stood out in the study for their stronger link to premature death.
  — Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Aug. 2024
• For now, the idea of upstart A.I. firms supplanting Google feels premature.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2022
• Conor Hall, a deli clerk in a Boulder King Soopers, disputed the company’s argument that a strike vote was premature because union members haven’t had a chance to vote on it.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025