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green, leafy, lush, luxuriant, overgrown, verdant
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So why did a grown man decide to take his wife’s last name? — Sean Wellington, Essence, "Why I (Proudly) Took My Wife’s Last Name When We Got Married," 30 Aug. 2019 With his inexplicably choppy hairstyle and boyish speaking voice, Travolta in particular comes across like a grown man trying to imitate a first-grader. — Los Angeles Times, "Review: Ben Kingsley makes ‘Spider’ special; John Travolta in ‘The Fanatic,’ and more," 29 Aug. 2019 The film opens not in the mountains but at a big urban swimming pool, where a grown man is goofing around with an 8-year-old boy, simultaneously having fun and helping him learn to swim. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: ‘Three Peaks’ is not a peak experience," 2 Aug. 2019 The film opens not in the mountains but at a big urban swimming pool, where a grown man is goofing around with an 8-year-old boy, simultaneously having fun and helping him learn to swim. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: ‘Three Peaks’ is not a peak experience," 2 Aug. 2019 The film opens not in the mountains but at a big urban swimming pool, where a grown man is goofing around with an 8-year-old boy, simultaneously having fun and helping him learn to swim. — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, "Review: 'Three Peaks' is not a peak experience," 10 July 2019 An enormous cast of the sharp-toothed jaw of a megalodon gapes open, wide and high enough to gobble a grown man. — Susan Dunne, courant.com, "Sharks! on exhibit through summer at the Bruce," 3 July 2019 Steel shears designed to snip cars into confetti, ripper claw attachments capable of dismantling entire buildings, and a hydraulic concrete crusher attachment with jaws wide enough for a grown man to lie down in between that weighed nearly 10 tons. — Andrew Curry, WIRED, "One Boy’s Dream Vacation to See Giant Construction Equipment," 26 June 2019 Carolina and Yoli also are the despised stepsisters of Santiago’s two grown children, who still mourn the death of their mother, the soul of the hotel. — Jeanne Jakle, ExpressNews.com, "San Antonio actress checks into Eva Longoria’s ‘Grand Hotel’," 11 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'grown.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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