How to Use growing pains in a Sentence

growing pains

plural noun
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  • And along with the growth came many interesting growing pains.
    — Kevin Dayhoff, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 21 May 2021
  • This is a function or a feature of growing pains in a society.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 3 June 2021
  • Her example and approach kept me going through those early growing pains.
    — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • For the companies launching a hybrid work model, there are likely to be growing pains.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Denver is planning to add six more teams, but the program is experiencing growing pains.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 May 2021
  • For now, Cleveland Indians fans will have to get used to the growing pains of a new group of starting pitchers.
    — Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Experiencing growing pains in your organization should be part of your plan.
    — Edward Tuorinsky, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • So this year’s group of youngsters will have every possible opportunity to make an early impact because their growing pains should be eased.
    — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 17 May 2021
  • That’s not to say that everything is sunshine and roses, but Schiller and Venegas believe that social media can be a salve for some growing pains.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 27 May 2021
  • That survey also included parents, and uncovered a few growing pains in the relationship.
    — Kate Stone Lombardi, Good Housekeeping, 9 June 2021
  • But then, in the sermon this weekend, the senior pastor, Brian Tome, mentioned a major error the church had made in its growing pains through the years.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • On-the-job training will be critical for Holland, but that means Miami must be willing to experience some growing pains.
    — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 10 June 2021
  • Although the team could have been stalled by growing pains after the previous core was dissolved, the Wild assembled a new nucleus around its young players and the shift was successful.
    — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • To succeed in monetizing audio content at scale, podcast publishers must first address some of the growing pains that accompany the growth and evolution of any new media.
    — Jonathan Gill, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • There were bound to be growing pains, and Payne knows it.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2022
  • There will be many growing pains, on both sides of the ball.
    — Rahat Huq, Chron, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The growing pains appear to have had time to fade into the past.
    — al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • There are going to be growing pains — and a lot of them.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • This would not be the last of the young industry’s growing pains.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The emphasis on song craft may have added to the growing pains.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • For Benjamin Behrooz, these growing pains are all part of the long game.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • But throughout the growing pains and the injuries, the Colts managed to learn how to win.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 5 Feb. 2022
  • But with the network’s growth have come growing pains as well.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The climbing world, on the other hand, has had to deal with some growing pains.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 4 July 2021
  • This book makes the growing pains a tad smoother to navigate, adding in some LOLs along the way.
    — Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe the scams and hacks are just growing pains of a young industry.
    — Colin Kirkland, SPIN, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The core of last year's outstanding unit is gone and there will be growing pains.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • In 2021, Google Stadia has passed many of its growing pains.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 19 Aug. 2021
  • By her 20s, however, Ms. Downs felt not just older but wiser, and suspected her stories could help ease the growing pains of others.
    — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Guards Fletcher Loyer and Braden Smith should also improve as sophomores after some growing pains.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Apr. 2023

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