How to Use growing pains in a Sentence

growing pains

plural noun
  • Kind of some growing pains there.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • But there have been growing pains.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 May 2026
  • That’s when growing pains tend to show up.
    — Tim Koch, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But there were growing pains, too.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Progress came with some growing pains.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • Of course, this comes with growing pains.
    — Jj Rosen, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Neville’s film is alive with growing pains.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Still, there are growing pains.
    — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 23 Mar. 2026
  • There are going to be some growing pains.
    — Christian Clark, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
  • There are just some growing pains with a lot of young pitchers.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Suarez said there are growing pains in any evolving city.
    — Miami Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
  • But the league has also faced growing pains over the last four year.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive.com, 10 July 2019
  • But with the network’s growth have come growing pains as well.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • But that approach can come with growing pains.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
  • There could be some growing pains for him sliding back to guard.
    — Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Such are the growing pains from a team that's learning how to win.
    — Rich Mayor, Aurora Beacon-News, 24 Jan. 2018
  • But for the growers, now comes growing pains.
    — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
  • There will be growing pains like there are for any freshman in any sport.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 13 Dec. 2020
  • The Knicks have had growing pains all season long.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Now, these changes won’t happen overnight, and there are bound to be some growing pains.
    — Ross Wolinsky, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The growing pains appear to have had time to fade into the past.
    — al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Name a player and there is a stretch of growing pains all endure.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The emphasis on song craft may have added to the growing pains.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • There’s a lot of growing pains that come with being a rookie.
    — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Maybe the scams and hacks are just growing pains of a young industry.
    — Colin Kirkland, SPIN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • A lot of that is normal, young-player growing pains for him.
    — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • This would not be the last of the young industry’s growing pains.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2021
  • There are a lot of themes that are relatable, like growing pains.
    — Eva Recinos, refinery29.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Have there been any other growing pains that have come as a part of this journey?
    — Regina Cho, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The growing pains will never end; that’s just the nature of the sport.
    — Jerry Perez, The Drive, 11 June 2026

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'growing pains.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: