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Example sentences for "grown person"

  • It is good to give children that have the summer disease; mix a tea-spoonful of it with sugar and water for a child, or a table-spoonful for a grown person.

  • A table-spoonful is a dose for a grown person.

  • I reply confidently, as one would speak of it to a grown person, allowing for the difference between abstract and concrete language.

  • Sidenote: Should talk with child as with a grown person.

  • Ten grains made into two pills are the dose for a full-grown person.

  • Mix 5 grains of blue pill and the same quantity of compound extract of colocynth, and make into two pills--the dose for a full-grown person.

  • Mix 5 grains of blue pill and the same quantity of compound extract of colocynth together, and make into two pills, the dose for a full-grown person.

  • Dose for a full-grown person: 10 grains made into two pills.

  • A child is naturally more timid than a grown person, and a given child may be afflicted with more timidity than is natural to his age.

  • Why cannot a grown person advance to make the acquaintance of a child with the same good manners used in meeting an adult?

  • If we behave fairly to the child (as we would to a grown person), giving to him the healthy reaction of common justice, we help him to live easily and rightly in the world before him.

  • Dose: One pill, for a grown person, and may be repeated every two or three hours till relief is obtained.

  • Dose: A teaspoonful is an ordinary dose for a grown person.

  • As a purgative the dose is from two to four pills for a grown person, and as an alterative and substitute for blue mass and to act on the liver, one pill once a day or every other day.

  • Dose: For a grown person, one to two teaspoonfuls as often as required.

  • It is a mistake, when a child has completely recovered from an acute but brief illness, to coddle him for weeks afterward merely because a grown person in similar circumstances would have failed to regain his strength.

  • The patient, whether child or grown person, should go to bed in a room alone and should stay in bed at least as long as the fever and symptoms of cold in the head continue, in order to protect others as well as himself.

  • Show how to prepare and administer a salt and water enema to a grown person; to a baby.

  • It is important in all serious illnesses of children, as well as of a grown person, that the bed should be so placed that the attendant can pass on either side, and can from either side reach the patient to do whatever is necessary.

  • It was a great delight to be asked to the holiday party; many a grown person would be thankful to take Betty's place.

  • I did not know quite what to do with her just now, as I should with a grown person.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grown person" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each cell; eyes came; flee from the wrath; foreign assistance; good youth; great religious; grown caterpillar; grown from; grown people; grown person; grown woman; heartily glad; horizontal axis; hydraulic pressure; industrial democracy; iron chest; less regular; night came; other directions; riddle about; rolling plains; seventh year; take anything; till thou; variable number; volume novel