How to Use precocious in a Sentence

precocious

adjective
  • She was a precocious child who could read before she went to school.
  • A precocious musician, he was giving concerts when he was seven.
  • In the new film, all this precocious young fox wants is to help his hero save the world.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022
  • The calm, precocious girl who went into the surgery was not the same one who emerged.
    — Joshua Lang, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
  • Maybe there was only room for one black-and-white movie with a precocious kid in the race.
    — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Her friends laugh, and a precocious, 2-year-old toddler stops by and waves hi.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • Alperen Şengün one of the league's most precocious post players.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Noah, a precocious artist, has sketched the exact same building.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024
  • What is a Cold War, the show seems to say, to a group of precocious, wiseass kids?
    — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 9 July 2019
  • Ben had been a precocious child, who learned to read at age four from old Dick and Jane books.
    — Longreads, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Up next is a precocious Princess Charlotte, in a navy blue dress.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Tala, the adult, agrees to what this precocious 8-year-old child says and abandons her.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • Smith showed an interest in art from the age of 2 and was a precocious talent.
    — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Beyond merely precocious, her voice carries the weight of one who’s seen some things and lived to tell about them.
    — Matthew Ismael Ruiz, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Here is the one about the precocious tyke who convinced her family to take a chance on a deaf puppy.
    — Washington Post, 25 June 2021
  • Vann describes himself as a precocious introvert who wants to learn the ways of the land.
    — Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
  • At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly.
    — chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • Brees' right flnk will be fine with the precocious Ramczyk in the starting lineup.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Thomas has a precocious nature to his game, as a 6-8 forward who can play inside and out.
    — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 30 Oct. 2017
  • In girl friend groups, one of the girls is a bit more controlling, a bit more sassy, and a bit more precocious than the other ones.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Jonathan Safran Foer tries his hardest to write like a precocious twelve-year-old girl.
    — Stephen Marche, Esquire, 11 Feb. 2010
  • This has meant the show has spent more time with the very relatable Dunk and his precocious charge Egg.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • No one is more permanently precocious than a former child star.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Then there’s Rachael, an absurdly precocious 9-year-old who acts — well!
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Lea, a precocious young athlete not yet a teenager, was inspired enough to bring along a notebook and jot some of them down.
    — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The wisdom out of the mouth of a precocious 3-year-old has, from then on, been the family's motto.
    — Michelle Matthews, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • But the precocious freshman point guard also felt like that stretch sounded a warning alarm inside of him.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Flaherty—always the precocious one of the bunch—moved the quickest.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Gabi is a force of nature, or as much a force of nature as a very precocious, purple-haired 10-year-old can be.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • But the time spent at home, and with their precocious daughter Mercy, seems to help reunite the couple.
    — Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2023

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