18 Verbs to Use for the Word adult

Children need adults.

They must work and punish the adults with less rigour.

It is true we saw during that ride few able-bodied male adults, either in the towns through which we rushed or in the country.

We cannot calculate upon these: we must educate the children for better positions and leave the adults to their destiny.

He paid all the adults, on their discharge, the sum, which arbitrators, mutually chosen, awarded them.]

The years had passed, and Hilda was now older than that mature woman was then; and yet she could not feel adult, though her childhood gleamed dimly afar off, and though the intervening expanse of ten years stretched out like a hundred years, like eternity.

Where can you find many adults who would relish a meal which should consist entirely of plain bread, without any addition; of plain potatoes, without anything on them except a little salt; of a plain rice pudding, and nothing with it; or of plain baked or boiled apples or pears?

The hall will hold about 1,500 adults and his congregation (?) is a mixed one comprising both sexes, just like all church organizations; after which, it is a copy.

In the settlements they often seize and carry off children, but they do not molest adults.

The party that started westward numbered thirty-two adults, all told; for one sergeant had died, and two or three persons had volunteered at the Mandan villages, including a rather worthless French "squaw-man," with an intelligent Indian wife, whose baby was but a few weeks old.

Lee was to have them load their weapons into one wagon, to separate the adults from the children and wounded, who were to be put into the other, and then march the party out.

This is the patriarchal idea, according to which the family is the cell of society, and at the head of the family stands the eldest male adult as a sort of patriarch.

" In such stresses of extreme panic and anguish an adult is simply a child, with the same overweight of emotions and the same imperfections of reason.

Then transferred adults from one container to another and then fed them.

The seventeen refugees whom he and nine companions brought over the summit comprised three weak, wasted adults, and fourteen emaciated young children.

These constituted the adults; there are two sons and a daughter, still in their school-days.

Theft was unknown to them, nothing was hidden; their huts had neither doors nor windows, and when, after the advent of the French, a Carib missed anything in his hut, he used to say: "A Christian has been here!" Dutertre says that in thirty-five years all the French missionaries together, by taking the greatest pains, had not been able to convert 20 adults.

As to employing adults in them, I have nothing at present to say.

18 Verbs to Use for the Word  adult