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How to use precocious in a sentence

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A precocious composer, he was sent to France and Italy about 1664 to study the latest fashions in music.
It's a wonder I wasn't strangled before opening night, but at that age, precocious is cute.
By the time he reached his teens he showed precocious talent and at the age of 25 he was a rising star.
In the endeavor to resuscitate Rome's art scene after World War II, few were more enterprising and none more precocious than Piero Dorazio.
Her annoyingly precocious daughter becomes the main conduit to the supernatural by way of the imaginary-friend device.
Many wine tasters have resorted to using anthropomorphic terms such as aggressive, clumsy, gutsy and precocious.
You feel the precocious Dinah is auditioning for the show rather than extending the narrative.
The precocious talkativeness is a major attribute of the boy, who is known by the name of his class rather than a real proper name.
These precocious tetradactyl fliers developed a unique wing predicated upon a greatly elongated fourth finger.
He tells the tale of the precocious and gifted son of master court painter, who grows up illiterate but an exceptionally brilliant painter.
So far as I have been able to determine, nothing more is known of this precocious Baudelairean.
He was a precocious genius, became famous very early, and for a while tasted society life and the pleasure of entertainment and diversion.
That was a very precocious thing for a student to do, even in the seventies.
In the West, precocious puberty is sometimes treated with regular injections to slow down physical development.
Over the past few years, the Dandy Warhols have gone from precocious shoegazers to frontrunners.
She is blowsy, slightly needy, and struggling to keep in check the precocious sexuality of her only daughter, aptly named Lolita.
Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative.
And when they are shown they are either precocious brats or philosophy-spouting saints.
Two new viviparous mutants showed some signs of precocious germination but did not emerge fully on the cob.
The apricot gets its name from the Latin word praecox, meaning precocious, for its habit of ripening early compared with other stone fruits.
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But the precocious Adams had only a little of the prig and nothing of the hypocrite in his nature.
As for that precocious damsel, she would run no least risk of destruction by the satyr.
Broadview is vigorous, precocious, prolific, large with a pellicle too bitter for human consumption.
This was to be the use to me of the lessons of the precocious, affectionate, and philoprogenitive Harkness.
In their precocious departure, he might have divined the imminency of a severe and terrible winter.
Henry was still in bed, but awake and reading Smiles with precocious gusto.
They had an unhealthy look, sallow and pale, and they were odiously precocious.
Keenly forward, almost precocious on the calculative side, she had remained singularly untroubled on the emotional side.
Of precocious nature, she endured her martyrdom with extraordinary fortitude.
He is less strong than mitis, and possibly less precocious in this respect.
Such a precocious little girl, with such a dowdy bonnet on, who brought her sandalled shoes in an old threadbare velvet reticule.
He was, however, an individual of earthy hue, with precocious wrinkles.
They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens.
Cheered by this prospect, the precocious boy applied himself to his infantile treadmill, with increased vigour.
She was an only child, very precocious, with a retentive memory.
Many of our greatest divines have been anything but precocious.
An act of so much precipitancy and presumption would seal the downfall of precocious intellect forever.
I heard her lady-mother's character afterwards, and then I ceased to wonder at the precocious accomplishments of the daughter.
I never can quite understand whether my precocious self-dependence confused her.
Therefore, you would scarcely be interested in Kim's experiences as a St Xavier's boy among two or three hundred precocious youths, most of whom had never seen the sea.
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