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adjective

mature

CEFR B2

characteristic of maturity

In a sentence

Six example sentences with mature, each labelled with its topic.

  • Choosing the larger reward twenty minutes later is the mature response, and most four year olds cannot manage the wait.

    Psychology

  • Her handling of the recall was mature: she apologized first, fixed the plant, and only then explained the accounting.

    Business

  • At nineteen he already plays a mature game, taking the open pass instead of forcing the highlight every possession.

    Basketball

  • The band's third record sounds mature, trading shouted choruses for songs that let silence do some of the work.

    Music

  • The senator's mature reply to the heckler, a joke and a question about his town, drew more applause than the speech.

    Politics

  • Her mature novels drop the tricks of the early books and trust readers to notice what nobody in the story says.

    Literature

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