7 sentences with 'adult'
Example sentences and phrases with the word adult and other words derived from it.
• « The three basic points of physical activity for a healthy adult are: 50 per cent aerobics, 25 per cent muscle strengthening and toning, and the remaining 25 per cent flexibility and stretching. »
• « All adult male citizens had one vote in the public assembly, while a smaller council handled day-to-day affairs. »
• « A common practice was for an adult male of the elite classes to 'adopt' an adolescent male of his social class and for both to mentor him in politics, social conduct and warfare, and to maintain what we would now consider a statutory sexual relationship with him - this practice was especially common in Sparta's barrack society. »
• « This was the first time in European history that every adult male was allowed the right to vote regardless of wealth or status. »
• « By the time Gobineau was an adult, earlier versions of conservatism seemed increasingly outdated, especially de Maistre's theological claims about original sin. »
• « Garibaldi was an adventurer, a romantic nationalist and a revolutionary who had spent most of his adult life as a mercenary fighting in independence campaigns and wars, mainly in South America. »