as a child

idiom

: when one was a child

I went there once as a child.

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His late mother, Princess Diana, visited the continent frequently, and William himself traveled to Africa as a child in the aftermath of her death in 1997. —

Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024 Harris regularly visited India as a child and spent time with her grandfather, P. V. Gopalan, a freedom fighter in India. —

Yash Roy, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024 Norman Smith said that as a child, his grandmother and other tribal members were approached by the U.S. government with an offer to settle their claims to 10 million acres of ancestral lands. —

Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024 Growing up as a child star, Olsen experienced the pressures of fame from a young age, which may have influenced her desire to protect Otto. —

Karla Renic, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for as a child