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Example sentences for "maturity"

Lexicographically close words:
maturely; maturer; matures; maturest; maturing; matutinal; mau; maua; maudlin; maugre
  1. This indirect advice, coupled with maturity of years and incipient disease, changed the writer's point of view, and his best known work is typically Russian in its tragic intensity.

  2. The combination of the great age of Russia with its recent intellectual birth produces a maturity of character, with a wonderful freshness of consciousness.

  3. You have a terrific personality and if you were at your maturity in this traditionless era you'd be a great national figure, not a mere social power.

  4. Youth--real youth--and the best years of maturity are the seasons for love.

  5. What, in its chrysalis condition of principle, affronted their demure reason, never fails, in its maturity of accomplishment, to extort admiration from their instinct of beauty.

  6. It makes no difference to the astonishing contrast between the immaturity of the novel and the maturity of the poem.

  7. The romanticist, it is true, is wont to oppose to the demand for maturity Christ’s praise of the child.

  8. The best of the poetry of his maturity tends like that of the ancients to elevate and console.

  9. There is at least one generation each year, and in warmer parts probably a second, which may reach maturity before winter or not till the following spring.

  10. Though gradation in size may be a sign of successive ages in certain insects, the presence of functioning wings denotes that growth has ceased; in the case of wingless insects, the characters of maturity may be less conspicuous.

  11. The insect reaches maturity in from four to six weeks.

  12. The young reach maturity and commence to reproduce five to six weeks from birth, there being several generations in the course of a season.

  13. The winter is passed by the insect in almost a mature state; on the advent of spring, development to maturity continues, when, after mating, the females give birth to living young over a period of several weeks.

  14. The eggs hatch in from one to three weeks, and the larvae migrate freely, the insects reaching maturity one or two months later, according to climatic conditions.

  15. The ears come to edible maturity almost simultaneously, and a short season of Sweet Corn is the result.

  16. A succession should be sown that will come to maturity one after the other, extending the season six or eight weeks.

  17. Some plants may be grown to maturity in the Hotbed, particularly lettuce and radishes.

  18. When she reaches maturity and is once settled, the Lycosa becomes eminently domesticated.

  19. Every stage of evolution is here represented, distributed regularly from bottom to top, from the verge of maturity to the vague outlines of the embryo.

  20. They did not come to maturity this year, as I found on again visiting this spot in October; but their tops had afforded the poor Tibetans some good vegetables.

  21. For hypocrites have no other way to bring their evils to maturity but by using and mixing the name of God and religion therewith.

  22. I say, it is the very father and mother of them; it both begets them, and also nourishes them up, till they come to their cursed maturity in the bosom of him that entertains them.

  23. You must understand that he is old and wealthy, and that his wife is a young woman, comparatively speaking, though she had arrived at that degree of maturity before marriage which entitles a lady to the honors of an old maid.

  24. So that when these six grew up to maturity they developed characters about as diverse as could possibly be found, notwithstanding the course of their education, or rather teachings (mental and moral) had been about the same.

  25. When wilt thou understand this, my Italy, risen as thou art to the third maturity of thy civilization and glory?

  26. If we gather together the results of our observations of "Idomeneo," we cannot fail to discern in it the work of a master who has arrived at the maturity of his powers while still in the full bloom of youth.

  27. But what is truly remarkable is that this precocious child should have blossomed into maturity as an accomplished musician.

  28. The debt was not discharged at the maturity of the bond, and Shylock made application to the Doge to have the pound of human flesh delivered to him in accordance with the compact.

  29. The lawgiving genius of Rome had then reached maturity and approximate perfection in the organization of its criminal tribunals.

  30. They are the fruit of thirty years' meditation (it being so long since I wrote the Enquirer), in the full maturity of my understanding.

  31. He had already designed a lyre with only two of the strings strung, as indicating the unaccomplished maturity and ripening of his genius.

  32. In some this filament in its advance to maturity has acquired hands and fingers, with a fine sense of touch, as in mankind.

  33. Whence as he advances to maturity he gradually acquires a sense of female beauty, which at this time directs him to the object of his new passion.

  34. Upon the attainment of maturity the child will be expected to assume his place in society, and society has a right to the best that he is able to offer.

  35. They evidently do not prevent its coming to maturity in considerable abundance, and it is therefore no doubt preserved from its chief enemies during its various stages of growth.

  36. The extreme limits of variation would be seen probably if we examined every swallow that had reached maturity during the last century.

  37. The consequence has been, that persons in the most immature stages of life have been appointed to conduct affairs which required the greatest maturity of judgment, the greatest possible temper and moderation.

  38. In maturity the mollusc weighs several pounds, its shell has a capacity for as much as two gallons of water, and is coloured uniformly buff, while in old age infantile milk-white reasserts itself.

  39. As our life comes to maturity we discover to our confusion that human ears can pick up from the Infinite many incompatible tunes, but cannot hear the whole symphony.

  40. The choices which determine the universe of maturity are often made in youth; then the foundations are laid of that apperceiving mass which is to condition all the man's contacts with reality.

  41. They have lived from childhood to maturity at the little window of consciousness and have never given themselves the opportunity of setting up correspondences with any other world than that of sense.

  42. Its birth must be sought in pre-existing elements of society, and its maturity would be expected to occur long after its origination.

  43. It required long periods of time, after the idea was developed into life, to bring it to maturity with its uses evolved.

  44. In childhood, sheltered from life's tragic incidents, this expectation was more or less realized; but now in maturity they are disappointed.

  45. This maturity which so has faced the tragic aspects of our human life is not less desirable than childhood; it may be richer, fuller, steadier.

  46. Maturity has to deal with so much more tragic facts than youth can ever know.

  47. Little children blame chairs for their falls and thank apple trees for their apples, but maturity outgrows the folly of accusing or blessing impersonal things.

  48. Moreover, in our maturity we are not likely to be interested in a God who is not personal.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maturity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; adulthood; bill; borrowing; capability; charge; chit; close; competence; completion; conclusion; condition; culmination; development; due; dues; end; ending; finish; finishing; fitness; fruition; indebtedness; liability; majority; manhood; mastery; maturation; maturity; obligation; perfection; pledge; preparedness; prime; proficiency; qualification; readiness; score; seasoning; suitability; tempering; termination; terminus; trim; virility; womanhood