How to Use precocious in a Sentence

precocious

adjective
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  • 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
  • The dialogue in a scene like this one has a precocious snap.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • A precocious tot who plays with matches gets burned … to death.
    — David L. Coddon, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 May 2017
  • 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
  • Flaherty—always the precocious one of the bunch—moved the quickest.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The precocious youth spent his early years playing chess.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 28 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Here the precocious young pig happens to hear her mother complaining over the phone.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The gymnastics that came so easily for so long to the precocious teenager had turned shaky.
    — Will Graves, Chron, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Up next is a precocious Princess Charlotte, in a navy blue dress.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Alperen Şengün one of the league's most precocious post players.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Brees' right flnk will be fine with the precocious Ramczyk in the starting lineup.
    — Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Princess Charlotte has something of a precocious palate.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Luckily, his magical sleigh, reindeer and precocious elves know how to get him through the night — and the rest of the year.
    — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly.
    — chicagotribune.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • While most children act their age, some are pretty precocious.
    — Anna Zambelli, Good Housekeeping, 2 Dec. 2015
  • 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
  • Okay, obligatory scene of a cute, precocious kid urging their parent to follow the path of true love.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Dec. 2022
  • The long wait time probably provides some cushion, giving late bloomers time to catch up to their more precocious kin.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Stricker and Kelly have known North since the younger duo were precocious talents.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2021
  • The bad news is that Reva now appears to have precocious little Leia in her clutches.
    — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 1 June 2022
  • Her friends laugh, and a precocious, 2-year-old toddler stops by and waves hi.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland.com, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The mom and her blond-haired, precocious pre-kindergarten son have found a bit of a groove after moving around following the killings.
    — Carrie Cochran, Cincinnati.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • There was precocious, reedy, teen Kobe desperate to make his mark.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Whether that means the precocious French talent will stay is another matter.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Epstein was a precocious tween at the time, and this remained her go-to position well into her twenties.
    — Micah Solomon, Forbes, 10 May 2021

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