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get older in English:

1. age age


Act your age.
Singer and actress Selena Gomez started her career at age seven on the children's public television show "Barney and Friends."
Tom lied about his age, so Mary thought he was much older than he really was.
Roger Miller entered the United States Army at the age of seventeen. He was sent to an army base near Atlanta, Georgia.
As humans age, their physical strength declines.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I love looking at everyone's colorful kimonos on Coming of Age Day.
Carbon dating was performed on the sample to determine its age.
Louis Braille, who was blind from the age of three, invented a way for the blind to read.
A working man should be paid in proportion to his skill, not his age.
Old age creeps upon us unnoticed.
I never for a moment imagined that I would still be doing this kind of thing at my age.
Can a child of her age distinguish good from bad?
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand.

2. grow up grow up


What do you want to be when you grow up?
Children grow up and are no longer children.
Some people will never grow up
If you don't grow up, your problems are just begining
Aug San didn't see her sons grow up. She was under house arrest.
Don't bahave like a chid. grow up.
Stop behaving like a child! When will you finally grow up?
When I grow up, I will become a firefighter!
I don’t really want to grow up so I still live with my parents.
As children grow up, they want more independence from their parents.
I don’t want to grow up so I still live with my parents.
I don't want to grow up so I still live with my parents.

English word "get older"(grow up) occurs in sets:

phrasal verbs - form 20.03 - till 14.05