The grown-up boys in the Dugout can shoot more bull over a cup of coffee than the entire ball club does during a rain delay.

"You're really a grown-up boy for only two and a half."

I had to be the grown-up boy, sensible and responsible.

Still, grown-up bad boys can be tiresome.

It was this sort of grown-up little boy that my poor B'Mella had to lean on for advice.

The company flourished in the 1980's by purveying high-priced toys for status-conscious, ostensibly grown-up boys.

Ms. Grafton has no use for the quarrelsome brothers, grown-up boys who are "still slugging it out over the same toy truck."

He is one of the few American actors who create the impression of a mature manliness: most others strike me as grown-up boys.

For a cheerful grown-up boy, who can actually legitimately wear all those hats, life is a pretty sweet proposition, all in all.

He was like a grown-up boy, someone who hadn't yet been beaten down by the world.