Growing-up Sentence Examples

As an only child growing up with aging parents and no relatives, life had often been lonely.

Learning to make your own decisions is part of growing up.

Adolescent cliques are a part of growing up.

Usually these poems are about succeeding in life and in education, though they can also be about growing up or remembering the past.

A student's favorite book might be a good place to find a short passage that has to do with growing up or success.

One of the best known American painters and perhaps the best known female painter ever, Georgia O'Keefe fell in love with art is a child growing up in Wisconsin.

And I told her I had the same problem back when I was growing up in the business.

After growing up in Massapequa, Long Island, he briefly attended the State University of New York at Oswego before transferring to Queens College.

Ever since I was a boy growing up in a small town in Michigan, I've been interested in Hollywood and pop culture.

Life for the Walker family was hard, with the children growing up during the Great Depression.

While girls still dress up today, they are nothing compared to the fanfare found in the wardrobe of little girls growing up in the 1950s and 60s.

The only dog we had growing up in the city had to be walked on a leash.

Kudsu (Pueraria) - P. thunbergiana is a remarkable climbing plant of almost tropical vigour, growing up poles, colonnades, and walls to a great height in a very short time.

Clematis are climbing vines, growing up and over arches, arbors and other supports.

The newspapers will help keep the weeds and grass from growing up into your raised bed.

You also have to remember that for most of us who are now 50+, when we were growing up the idea of a woman traveling alone or even several women traveling together, without the company of their husbands, was scandalous!

Kids are growing up faster and putting down Barbie dolls and G.I.

They may feel that they always have more growing up to do in order to have the privileges they see their older siblings have.

Social scientists have found that children growing up in single-parent families are disadvantaged in other ways when compared to a two-biological-parent families.

Therefore, children growing up in bilingual homes and/or receiving bilingual education easily acquire both languages.

Children growing up in homes where two different languages are spoken usually acquire both languages simultaneously.

Prior to the use of the varicella vaccine, chickenpox was a typical part of growing up for most children in the industrialized world.

Hypertrophied adenoids are a normal part of growing up and should be respected for their important role in the development of immunity.

The best thing they can do is to help the child feel comfortable about being shy, by explaining that shyness can be a normal part of growing up.

Maybe they didn't have a positive role model to look up to while growing up or they don't feel motherly.

Véronique, a former Miss France, spent her early days growing up in the French Carribean on the island of Guadeloupe, and this tropical influence shines through in all of her designs.

Teddy bears will be a staple for kids growing up in America and in hundreds of other countries for years to come.

Part of your maturing is being able to help your loved ones accept that you are growing up.

I suggest you start talking to your mom about what it was like for her growing up.

Going off to school and leaving behind loved ones is hard, but it is also part of the maturing process for growing up.

Dramatic play prepares him for school and growing up.

A recent study shows that 83 percent of men who were Boy Scouts say that the values they learned growing up with this organization continue to be important to them today.

Her simple yet flavorful recipes have become a hit on the Internet, thanks to Clara's bright demeanor and nostalgic tales of growing up during the Great Depression.

The contradictions of adulthood mark the series as they struggle with their drama, their growing up and their need to forgive betrayals of trust.

Felicity and her friends cope with the pain of growing up and the consequences of bad decisions.

Family, community and growing up are all strong elements of the nurturing theme.

She had a hard time growing up and wants her baby to have a better life than she did.

Troian Bellisario told CanMag that growing up on the sets could get boring.

You could even have forget-me-nots with vines and weeds growing up around the skull and through the sockets to give the tat a feeling of things long forgotten.

Children will be amazed to learn more about the music genre that was popular as their parents were growing up.

He published the memoir "Parallel Play" about his experience growing up on the autism spectrum.

How you remember shopping for your first bra depends a great deal on your relationship with your mom and how you felt about your body growing up.

It can make a girl feel like she's growing up and becoming more mature.

While this may be a tragic thing and not an ideal situation for many young girls growing up in America today, it is true that women who wear thongs are beautiful.

Born December 4th 1973 and raised in California, Tyra was thought to be too skinny by her peers when she was growing up as a teen.

Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police and the band's founder, had previously been in prog rock band Curved Air, but he was fascinated by the scene that was growing up around the punk scene and wanted to be a part of it.

For his follow up to Beware of The Dog, Bow Wow dropped the "Lil" part of his name to signify that he was growing up.

Born Natasha Anne Bedingfield on November 26, 1981, Bedingfield spent her childhood growing up first in Surrey, England and later in the Lewisham borough of London.

While most of his friends had been to jail at that point in his life, Flo Rida set a positive example and stayed out of trouble growing up.

Barney became an international icon for pre-school aged children growing up in the 90s, and the lovable purple Tyrannosaurus Rex is still popular with kids today.

My parents-who raised five of us-were always entertaining when I was growing up.

She claims growing up poor taught her how to survive, and she plans to bring that strategy to her Survivor game plan.

Most of the women are all in their early 20s, indicating that they may still have a lot of growing up and maturing to do.

Because of drug and alcohol abuse problems, Donald's mother had lost custody of him at a young age, and he spent most of his life growing up in the system.

Facts about Tyra Banks consist of tidbits from her early years growing up awkward to her recent years in television.

When a grown child of adoption was doing the searching, the show presented what his or her life was like growing up.

For fans of Dee Snider, Growing Up Twisted is a reality TV show that showcases the rocker and his family as they live life in the spotlight.

For Dee Snider, Growing Up Twisted captures the family dynamics in a household where the father is a rock star.

In addition to Growing Up Twisted, Dee Snider hosts a syndicated radio show called House of Hair, during which he plays heavy metal music.

To learn more about Growing Up Twisted, visit the official A&E website for the show.

A&E decided to cash in on that curiosity with the 2004 reality series Growing Up Gotti.

I love Tenley, she has a heart of gold, even if she has a little growing up to do.

It is a Victorian kind of world, and Lyra is (she thinks) an orphan, growing up under the almost non-existent control of various Oxford dons, with a 'guardian' who oversees her from afar.

Wayne Manor is large and foreboding, not at all a place you can imagine a young Bruce growing up with his loving mother and father.

He was growing up and she needed to keep that in mind - and some things off his mind.

I thought about asking Martha; she was around some when I was growing up.

He circled his statue, barely recalling his life growing up.

He spoke of family barbecues and a week's vacation on the Jersey shore, kids growing up and Christmas eggnog shared.

In fact, Carmen had spent so much time in the Reynolds kitchen growing up that neighbors began to think she belonged there.

That was one reason why they never had a television when she was growing up.

He recalled growing up and running around the apple orchard with his little brother and the children of the palace.

His sight was poor enough that the moonlight hurt his eyes, but his other senses were strong after growing up beneath the ground.

Jonathan was growing up fast.

It was an additional misfortune for Alexius that his father should have been too busy to attend to him just as he was growing up from boyhood to manhood.

A tendency is growing up towards the extension of technical and commercial education in place of the exclusively classical instruction hitherto imparted.

Obelia forms numerous polyserial stems of the characteristic zigzag pattern growing up from a creeping basal stolon, and buds the medusa of the same name.

He was found by Pharaoh's daughter, and his (step-)sister Miriam contrived that he should be nursed by his mother; on growing up he killed an Egyptian who was oppressing an Israelite, and this becoming, known, he sought refuge in flight.

Meanwhile the custom was growing up of appealing to eminent Church writers of a past generation under this name.

Many ecclesiastical ceremonies, growing up from early times, clustered round the celebration of the Easter festival.

Such a mitre appears on a seal of Archbisho p Thomas Becket (Father Thurston, The ?P allium, London, 1892, p. 17), The custom was, however, .already growing up of setting the horns over the front and back of the head instead of the sides (the mitre said to have belonged to St Thomas Becket, now at Westminster Cathedral, is of this type), 1 and with this the essential character of the mitre, as it persisted through the middle ages, was established.

Mill complains that his father often required more than could be expected of him, but his tasks were not so severe as to prevent him from growing up a healthy and high-spirited boy, though he was not constitutionally robust, and his pursuits were so different from those of other boys of the same age.

Though this cause was unsuccessful, Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

Halifax was a borough by prescription, its privileges growing up with the increased prosperity brought by the cloth trade, but it was not incorporated until 1848.

But this would not help Wagner to feel that contemporary music was really a great art; indeed it could only show him that he was growing up in a pseudo-classical time, in which the approval of persons of " good taste " was seldom directed to things of vital promise.

He builds up, from birth onwards, his own mental mechanisms, and forms more of them, that is to say, is more " educable," and takes longer in doing so, that is to say, in growing up and maturing his experience, than any other animal.

In this exquisite and ingenious kind of work the design appears to be growing up from the depths of the metal, and a delightful impression of atmosphere and water is obtained.

At the very outset of his labours he had been profoundly impressed with a sense of his responsibility towards the numerous outcast children who were growing up around him in ignorance and crime.

Brand-new institutions on Western models were gradually growing up among the cumbrous, antiquated, wornout machinery of old Muscovy; and new men, like Menshikov, Goloykin, Apraksin, Osterman, Kurakin, Tolstoy, Shafirov, Prokopovich, Yaguszhinsky, Yavorsky, all capable, audacious, and brimful of new ideas, were being trained under the eye of the great regenerator to help him to carry on his herculean task.

Infection in these cases occurs in the seedling at the place where root and shoot meet, and the infecting hypha having entered the plant goes on living in it and growing up with it as if it had no parasitic action at all.

A rivalry, however, growing up between him and Roderigo Borgia, he took refuge at Ostia after the latter's election as Alexander VI., and in 1494 went to France, where he incited Charles VIII.

But a new Syracusan power was growing up to meet them.

A new generation was growing up under new economic and social conditions.

Probably the most crying need was that of priests to minister to the great city populations, at that time growing up with such rapidity, especially in Italy.

Though French was still the language of the court and of law, a new literature was already growing up in the native tongue, with such works as Layamons Brut and the Ormulum as its first fruits.

The invention of machinery and the jadesthe concentration of the working population in manufacturing centres had all but destroyed the old village industries, and great populations were growing up outside the traditional restraints of the old system of class dependence.

We have an archway with two climbing roses growing up each side which we planted last year.

A great number of children growing up in these cities are not baptized.

The Growing Up proposals in 1999 put this sharply into context for the United Reformed church in relation to the Five Marks of Mission.

The king cobra is the largest venomous snake, growing up to 16 ft long.

Our youngsters are almost coerced into growing up far too fast and far too soon by some of the pressures and policies around them.

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The elements of the new society which were growing up within the old, now become dominant.

Return of the Living Dead Growing up as a teenage horror fan in the eighties was a world of gory eye candy.

Jim's Version " .....as with many fairy tales, Cinderella is principally a story about the difficulties of growing up " .

Growing old is mandatory; growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!

Wright's vivid portrayal of growing up makes compelling reading.

Jungles and lush conservatories look as verdant as they do because of all the climbers growing up and hanging down.

It is incredibly wasteful in society to have something like three million children growing up in poverty.

As the origin of the Sierra Leonis and the Americo-Liberian settlers was very much the same, an increasing intimacy is growing up between the English-speaking populations of these adjoining countries.

Meanwhile, and partly through distrust of the Kruger policy, there was growing up in Cape Colony a party of South African Imperialists, or, as they have been called, Afrikander Imperialists, who came to a large extent under the influence of Cecil Rhodes.

The whole lot contains eleven acres, mostly growing up to pines and hickories, and was sold the preceding season for eight dollars and eight cents an acre.

A young forest growing up under your meadows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.

My boy is growing up and rejoices in life, in which like everybody else he will deceive or be deceived.

The title of you growing up approved of his remote for a month.

Whilst growing up on a self-sufficient farm, she sold eggs at farmers ' markets.

He speaks with a thick French accent, a legacy of growing up on a farm in Rougemont, Canada, outside Montreal.

To a spotty little teenager growing up in the back streets of Islington these were heady times.

Dirty brown stalactites hung from the ceiling almost meeting their twins growing up from the floor.

The story of a baby girl growing up and becoming a mother herself - lovely illustrations and rather tear jerking for adults !

When I was growing-up it is truthful to say that for those of us who were born into abject poverty opportunities were virtually non-existent.

David Higgins became a huge wrestling fan whilst growing up in Liverpool in the 1970s.

Before sending their daughter off to college, the parents took time to reminisce on her growing up.

Potty-training is a normal part of growing up and something they must and will learn over time if parents give the proper support with a positive and empowering attitude.

Children are growing up in the era of technology, so many people feel that early exposure to computers for infants is necessary to a child's development.

They are evergreen, but they do drop leaves throughout the year. many different sizes of magnolias are available, with some growing up to 60 feet tall.

These plants haven't had sufficient light growing up and are likely to remain unhealthy.

One major deciding factor is how much financial education the students received from parents while growing up.

Although these pressures were there growing up in a Greek family, they were relatively minor struggles.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

These anger management tests can help to determine if your child's "acting out" is a normal part of the growing up process, or something more serious.

Today's youth are fashion conscious, technologically savvy, and growing up faster than ever.

While it's important to be vigilant, parents and teens should note that some of these signs are normal parts of growing up and testing boundaries.

Anahita is a teenager growing up in early 20th Century Persia, and she has a major problem.

As a teenager in high school you are nearing the finish line in the "race" to becoming a young adult, but it's important to remember that growing-up is not a competition between friends, classmates and other teens in your community.

This fast moving musical, by Richard and Martha Chirappa, is about high school sports and the performing arts, and about students growing up.

Remind her it's ok to look silly from time to time and that's part of growing up.

It's a common argument with parents and teens, with all the hi tech, multi tasking activities and socializing that is so different than when we were growing up.

Teen braces are almost a rite of passage for many teenagers and often an absolutely normal part of growing up.

You have probably also learned how to deal with the emotions of growing up and realize that puberty is a normal process every girl goes through.

Pulling pranks is a part of growing up and they can make some wonderful memories later on down the road.

Many girl sites out there have a place where teens can get advice on everything from growing up questions to sex and dating.

Instead, they may choose to have a cheesecake, pies, torts, cookies, or other dessert that was special when growing up.

Gloria has come a long way from her time growing up in Colombia, and it appears that the actress has done the same, going from a young mom to a dental student, and later a model and actress.

Sure, they know you are growing up and maturing, after all you're in high school, but in their hearts you're still their little girl.