How to Use childhood in a Sentence

childhood

noun

• Both men had unhappy childhoods.
• The war in Ukraine wrecked her city — and her childhood.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• For most of my childhood, my dad was in the Army Reserves.
  — Rosa Evans, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2023
• The first part of my childhood was spent in Lebanon, as my father is from there.
  — Nastya Platinova, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2024
• No one gets to choose the circumstances of their birth, or their childhood.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• The window of my childhood house had been left open and there was a layer of ash on the top of my piano.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
• On the walls were nature scenes, visions of his childhood.
  — Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• Much of O’Neal’s childhood was spent abroad, where his parents found work.
  — Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• So many of the things that brighten my life are tethered to the softest and brightest parts of my childhood.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• The author has often talked about her childhood and the lessons that both parents taught her.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
• Masako spent parts of her childhood in Moscow, Tokyo and Boston.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• To save herself, she is forced to team up with Rufus, whom she’s loathed since childhood.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
• Paul, 41, added that the depths of his childhood trauma are what resonated most with Adele.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• So, too, is the inari ($3) a sweet tofu pocket that was a favorite dessert from his childhood.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
• Like many people’s childhoods, my childhood was a lot like that.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2023
• The trio soon thereafter returned to Guatemala, where Blackmon spent most of his childhood.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
• His parents still live in Overland Park, about a mile from Kaine’s childhood home.
  — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2024
• Maybe those friends had Olympic size pools and guest houses to hang out in—but the comfort and ease of my husband's childhood home were more of a draw.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
• This trip, my first charter, was far different from the boats of childhood.
  — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 6 May 2024
• The movie is set in the same small village in the Cévennes Mountains where the director used to spend his childhood vacations.
  — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• For the 58-year-old, whose love of Yes goes back to his childhood in the Seventies, the gig remains a dream job even after all these years.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
• Throwbacks to childhood days of Myrtle Beach or Carowinds summers will live in this space.
  — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• So his childhood and Leary’s, their teenage years, were similar.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• My brothers and sisters and I have never talked much about our childhood.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• The love for elotes sprung from his Texas childhood, when Mexican street corn was abundant at food trucks.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 10 Apr. 2023
• Just the sight of one evokes the feeling of nostalgia and sweet childhood memories.
  — Meredith G. White, The Arizona Republic, 11 June 2024
• Asafoetida was involved in about 90 percent of the dishes of my childhood.
  — Priya Krishna, Bon Appétit, 2 Apr. 2023
• Courtesy of Changpeng Zhao The setting was a far cry from the village of Zhao’s early childhood.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 10 Apr. 2023
• The Oscar winner was born in Mexico but spent her childhood in Kenya.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
• Her ability to tune in to the global zeitgeist could be attributed to her exotic childhood.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024