How to Use growing pains in a Sentence

growing pains

plural noun
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  • 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
  • There have been a lot of growing pains in this process.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Even with the first-year growing pains, NBC was all in on Singh.
    — Leena Tailor, Glamour, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The growing pains appear to have had time to fade into the past.
    — al, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Yet the Bucs have progressed through the growing pains.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Just know that those guys, there are growing pains to this.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The emphasis on song craft may have added to the growing pains.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • But the league has also faced growing pains over the last four year.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive.com, 10 July 2019
  • 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
  • There have been growing pains, but progress has been made.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 8 June 2018
  • But with the network’s growth have come growing pains as well.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps this won’t be the death of the app so much as a passing era of growing pains.
    — Helena_fitzgerald, The Verge, 18 May 2018
  • In fairness, a lot of this is no doubt just growing pains.
    — Jeff Spross, TheWeek, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The 49ers have no time for rookie growing pains right now.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Even in a year of growing pains, the Marlins have had some losses that sting.
    — Andre C. Fernandez, miamiherald, 20 May 2018
  • The core of last year's outstanding unit is gone and there will be growing pains.
    — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Quibi tried to skip all the growing pains, and, as a result, may never grow.
    — Adam Epstein, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Now, these changes won’t happen overnight, and there are bound to be some growing pains.
    — Ross Wolinsky, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
  • In 2021, Google Stadia has passed many of its growing pains.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The rookie has had his growing pains, but things are starting to click for him.
    — Tony Holm, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Name a player and there is a stretch of growing pains all endure.
    — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • 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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