How to Use adult life in a Sentence

adult life

noun
  • Helton has been in and out of prison for most of his adult life.
    — Aliya S. King, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2025
  • My whole adult life & I don't know it without you.
    — Staff Author, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • My whole adult life & I don’t know it without you.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
  • My whole adult life & I don’t know it without you.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • My whole adult life & I don’t know it without you.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Long has spent much of his adult life in prison for similar crimes.
    — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
  • Even in my adult life and my new family, most of us are artists.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Even in my adult life and my new family, most of us are artists.
    — Rachel McRady, People.com, 8 May 2025
  • Sean Payton has pulled back from the void twice, in his adult life.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
  • No one—or almost no one—dreams of living an adult life from a tent.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 31 July 2024
  • White, now 68, has been in prison for nearly all her adult life.
    — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Back then, the whole business of adult life seemed beyond my skill set.
    — Lucinda Rosenfeld, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • At just 18, Quinn seemed to have his whole adult life ahead of him.
    — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Andy Reid has spent nearly all of his adult life in coaching.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Andy Reid has spent nearly all of his adult life in coaching.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
  • This impacted the guest deeply all the way into his adult life.
    — Jacob Orrin, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Much of her adult life, in some ways, Gilbert ran from Laura.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Erin has struggled with addiction for much of her adult life.
    — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Hilary Duff is packing for the first world tour of her adult life.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Life is still messy, and also the real adult life is knocking right.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Coaches teach young riders how to shred trails and prepare for adult life.
    — Morgan Carter, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2024
  • That was a consensus opinion all my adult life.
    — NBC news, 10 May 2026
  • Daniel has spent almost his entire adult life behind bars.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Socolow has been doing it his entire adult life.
    — B. R. Cohen, Longreads, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Full, grew up in and out of foster care and started her adult life homeless.
    — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
  • There are two main voices in the soundtrack of my adult life, you and Bono.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Savannah James has spent most of her adult life raising her kids.
    — Essence, 27 May 2025
  • Chandler has lived in cities with failing air quality grades for most of her adult life.
    — The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
  • For most of your adult life, breakdown and rebuilding stay in rough balance.
    — Allison Palmer updated June 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
  • My father possessed many virtues but for most of his adult life sobriety was not one of them.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024

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