How to Use adolescence in a Sentence

adolescence

noun

• Their children are on the verge of adolescence.
• He struggled through his adolescence.
• But the genre in the 1970s was still in its adolescence.
  — Big Boi With Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
• Once adolescence got them in its grip, the tenor of the visits changed.
  — Amy Randall, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2022
• On the brink of adolescence, Ian’s and Roland’s paths diverge.
  — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
• Most of the time, those rapid and intense mood shifts are a normal part of adolescence.
  — Amy Morin, Parents, 23 July 2024
• These are the all-too-real emotions of adolescence and, at times, of life.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2022
• Among them: love, heartbreak, and the angst of adolescence and adulthood.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2024
• The rates were also lower in this age group than were seen in adolescence.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 May 2022
• Having spent his adolescence in the Detroit area, Smith sought to bring his skills back to a place that felt like home.
  — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
• He’s grown a goatee and added muscle to his frame, but still has the same laugh and sincere smile of his adolescence.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• Now, with the help of his two friends, Danny fights ghosts while dealing with the daily stress of adolescence.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 2022
• Not that the movie subscribes to the idea of adolescence as a carefree, unburdened time.
  — A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• Sometimes Adebimpe sounds like a stoned drill sergeant, and at other times like a kid on the brink of adolescence.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
• The music of my adolescence is the subject of another series at the Coolidge.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• All those places had their moments; none made it past adolescence.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• My mouth was now a barricade between me and the onslaught of adolescence, a broke-glass fence around my body.
  — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• For their part, my parents were baffled at the changes that had come over me since early adolescence.
  — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• That might have been adolescence or testosterone or whatever the f--- was running through my body at the time.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• Her teenage blog, called Dua Daily, was a diary of Gen Z adolescence.
  — Jen Wang, Vogue, 10 May 2022
• Twizzle would be great in any home willing to love and care for her through her puppy adolescence.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• The bevy of emotions that come up about adolescence is universal, said the actor.
  — Alicia Rancilio, ajc, 4 May 2022
• But these shows kept the camera going even as the characters aged out of adolescence.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
• Cooking is her current therapy I was born and raised in Jamaica and came to the States in my late adolescence.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
• My access to a second adolescence has been lonely and scary.
  — Alán Pelaez Lopez, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• Like the main character in Big, the girls are convinced that the solution to the problems of adolescence is … skipping past it.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 July 2022
• Mary Weiss, the singer who channeled the melodrama of adolescence as the lead vocalist of the quintessential girl group the Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
• To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Born to a grocer and his wife in Beirut in August 1960, Nasrallah spent his early adolescence under the shadow of Lebanon’s civil war.
  — Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 28 Sep. 2024
• But the unregulated nature of these platforms leverages and exacerbates some of the worst aspects of adolescence.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024