"Let's be ___ about this"

Usage examples of adults.

Although groups lessen the defences of adults as well, this is particularly true of children and adolescents.

Patients with freed Adults are not disturbed by these manifestations of transitory mental disturbance.

The adults, bellowing in protest, swung their huge necks back and forth over the ground, hoping to sweep aside any predator foolish enough to come close.

Duckbills were hurled into the air, huge adults writhing, their lowing lost in the sudden fury.

If the flesh of the pup kept the adults alive a little longer, long enough for them to produce another litter, the genetic program would be fulfilled.

No more than a meter tall, the adults moved through the water with a stately calm, rumbling reassurance to each other, while their round-bodied infants splashed at their feet.

Or he was like a pup again, pushed out of a troop by adults bigger and stronger than he was, excluded by rules of which he had no innate understanding.

He was unlucky to be just the wrong age: too old to be defended by the adults, too young to fight for a place at the center, away from the danger.

The adults did dump their feces and urine outside, to keep out the flies, but the younger children had yet to learn that trick, and so the floor was littered with half-buried infant shit.

They just sat on the tundra like huge turds, with adults and grotesque kids lumbering everywhere.

The shadows of the two adults, cast by the setting sun, striped over him.

As they grazed, the youngest scuttling at the feet of their elders, the herd remained compact, and there was never a time when at least one of the adults was not scanning the grass.

A few kits ran around the legs of the adults, wrestling and nipping at each other with the ancient playful curiosity of predators.

They communicated: The adults called to each other continually with cries, squeals, and the drummings of those powerful tails that sent long-range shudderings through the ground.

I felt that it would distort the story to refer to the children in it as though they were adults, though most were treated as adults by the legal system.