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Example sentences for "adults"

Lexicographically close words:
adulteries; adulterine; adulterous; adultery; adulthood; adumbrated; adumbration; adumbrations; adunque; aduocate
  1. Present Legal Provision for Notification and Education of Feeble-minded Children, and for Care of Custodial Feeble-minded Adults and Children.

  2. The adults usually commence to molt in September and are but a few weeks in assuming their new dress, but the young in the first molt are much longer.

  3. In the fall of 1888 Mr. Whittaker received from a young Indian two pairs of pigeons, one of adults and the other quite young.

  4. Adults can beat children at the alphabet.

  5. You will find adult republicans in England, but no infant ones; adults monarchists in our own country, but not in our schools and nurseries.

  6. He kills a fowl and thrusts a sharpened stake right through it, so that the point projects from its beak, and slashes the carcase into three pieces, one for the adults of the house, one for the boys, and one for the infants.

  7. Very small groups and half-breeds have been omitted, the object being to summarise the characters of the adults of the larger groups.

  8. Kayan mothers believe that every child must go through this, and that one attack protects against its recurrence; and the rareness of the disease in adults seems to bear out this belief.

  9. And all the big adults were bending and leaning down and talking to him.

  10. And other things--towering adults who sometimes swoop down on you and throw you high into the air; and most times walk over you, around you, and ignore you completely.

  11. Moreover, the nervous system is developing at a more rapid rate, probably, than the other systems of organs, and this strain shows itself in various ways that are disagreeable to adults with fixed habits and standards.

  12. It may also be true that the instincts of adults adapted them in the past to their proper treatment of children.

  13. Over and over again we are impressed with the fact that most disagreements between people--whether between adults or between children, or between children and adults--are due to misunderstandings.

  14. Part of our campaign against the lies of our children must therefore consist in our attempt to establish truthful relations among adults, and between adults and children.

  15. Adults should not read their own ideas of morality into the acts of their children and then catalogue them as right or wrong.

  16. Investigation has shown that the sentimental or heroic element is one that appeals to children so strongly that it may often lead to what we adults would call lies, or it would seem to the child to justify lying.

  17. It has also been noticed that adults who bear the scars of severe yaws in childhood are more prone to contract some form of tuberculosis in after-life.

  18. Here and there in the audience, other adults stood up.

  19. It imparted the aura of demigods to the adults drifting up and down the ramp.

  20. I guess they just know you'd get bored and wander away from your seats and maybe disturb the adults or upset the electronics or something.

  21. For once in their very mature lives, all of the adults in the auditorium began to jabber at each other simultaneously.

  22. Adults aren't conditioned to reject violent solutions to problems where non-human enemies are concerned.

  23. The ventral vessel undergoes complicated changes and is represented in the adults of existing fishes by a series of important structures.

  24. It is a continuance by adults of their childish games with dolls.

  25. All living adults are easily recognized by the presence of pale, usually blue, spots on the flanks and thighs.

  26. The webbing in the feet is completely developed at metamorphosis, but young individuals have noticeably less webbing in the hand than do adults of the same species.

  27. The labial markings characteristic of the adults are represented only by a creamy white suborbital spot, which is a good diagnostic mark for young of this species.

  28. Keys are provided to aid in the identification of adults and of tadpoles.

  29. The first-fruits of the mission were soon gathered; several infants, in danger of death, were baptized, and several adults were also admitted into the Christian church through the same regenerating waters.

  30. Sunday-schools and reading-rooms have been established, and have contributed to the culture and elevation of adults and children.

  31. It is probable that in adults of this species the skull is broader than in stejnegeri.

  32. In times of famine, the adults often denied themselves in order to make the food last as long as possible for the children, who were not able to bear hunger as well as the old.

  33. I was made to respect the adults and especially the aged.

  34. With adults it comes through our co-operation with neighborhood associations, or organizations working for the benefit of foreigners, such as the Y.

  35. It has been possible to raise the standard of books for adults in the school libraries above that of the larger libraries.

  36. We feel that, splendid and admirable in every way as the work with the adults is, that that alone is not enough.

  37. By so doing we believe that we convince of our friendship those adults who do not and even those who may never read English.

  38. I remarked that the children at the colleges were not attacked by this disease, and therefore thought that it had probably originated in something used by adults and not by the young.

  39. These were excluded from colleges, and consequently were used by adults only.

  40. Similar precautions were taken in the cure of adult offenders against the laws, but as soon as my plans had time to operate, offences by adults were of rare occurrence.

  41. Not upon adults alone, however, were these measurements carried out, but upon infants, children, and youths as well.

  42. We are further informed that before shaving an infant, "the mother usually moistens the head with milk which she presses from her breast," while with older children and adults water serves for this purpose (498.

  43. Here it is the blood of adults that is used, but the practice demands the child's also.

  44. Male adults not greatly differing from Diaspidinæ; abdominal spike usually short and thick.

  45. If to these you add the infants or adults baptized by them, when dying of the small-pox, or other diseases, you will judge that they had no despicable fruits of their Apostolic labours.

  46. The lack of a conception of childhood innocence even extended to the practice of adults to tell bawdy jokes in their presence or play with their children's genitals.

  47. The adults are allowed by the Government a franc and a half per day, and the children seventy-five centimes.

  48. To the adults are issued protective masks like those that the soldiers wear, but the children do not know how to use them.

  49. To log on to an underground board can mean to experience liberation, to enter a world where, for once, money isn't everything and adults don't have all the answers.

  50. No one need know that you're fourteen years old--with a little practice at subterfuge, you can talk to adults about adult things, and be accepted and taken seriously!

  51. Evil spirits are always near; and, unless great precautions are taken, they will injure adults if they can get them at a disadvantage, particularly when they are asleep.

  52. Almost all of them are of American birth and it is certain that in a few years they will be engaged in doing just about the same sorts of work as are now done in the city of Cleveland by adults of American birth.

  53. Although many of the adults could never be taught to read, they learned portions of Scripture, and as they willingly listened to the teachers, the truth gradually spread among the whole population.

  54. On his arrival he found that one hundred and twenty adults had become Christians.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adults" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.