How to Use adolescence in a Sentence

adolescence

noun

• Their children are on the verge of adolescence.
• He struggled through his adolescence.
• The brain gets thicker in infancy, for instance, and then thins out in adolescence.
  — Alison Gopnik, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• As most men would agree, shaving starts in adolescence, seemingly, as a rite of passage to manhood.
  — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• But both are losing ground to another staple of adolescence: the video game console.
  — New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
• Each was seen mostly in men and usually started in adolescence or early adulthood.
  — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2021
• Over the course of their adolescence, students can use an online tool to help actively map a career plan, Battaglia said.
  — Cameron Fields, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2021
• But, as often happens in the film, statements about singing resonate with adolescence generally.
  — Martina Carlstedt, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2021
• Both books feature Juliette feeling torn between two worlds as a young woman who had spent most of her adolescence at school in New York.
  — NBC News, 16 Nov. 2021
• Anderson's tender, funny ramble captures all the hope and absurdity of adolescence, one wild polyblend rumpus at a time.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• Engeli Broberg’s film is a portrait of early adolescence and gender stereotypes, and ultimately about the journey to be true to yourself.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 Nov. 2021
• The agonies of adolescence get a charming, Hulk-like twist in the new trailer for the upcoming Pixar flick, Turning Red.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Nov. 2021
• The Phoenix children moved around a lot during their adolescence due to their family's involvement with the Children of God religious group.
  — Mckinley Franklin, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
• In their adolescence, the Brown brothers started making their own breakfast, like jelly toast and sandwiches, and learning family recipes that were passed down from their grandmother.
  — al, 20 Dec. 2021
• Among the Hmong, bride-kidnapping of girls as young as Di is commonplace, with both her mother and older sister La having married in early adolescence.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Nov. 2021
• Brown, whose adolescence is filled with memories of friends and family getting sick from contaminated water, is now actively fighting against such injustices.
  — NBC News, 9 Dec. 2021
• 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
• On one group date to a mock prom, many of his fellow contestants are seen reliving their adolescence on the dance floor.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024