How to Use childhood in a Sentence

childhood

noun

• Both men had unhappy childhoods.
• Share stories from your childhood, or recent game nights with friends.
  — Alyssa Girdwain, Women's Health, 17 Mar. 2023
• Landay gives an in-depth look at each Larkin sibling from childhood to adulthood.
  — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 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
• Now old enough to understand, Morales' kids have both researched their mother's childhood ordeal.
  — Jordana Comiter, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• The entire setup feels like a childhood fantasy turned reality.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
• In his early 20s, Burden found a box of old Star Wars and other plastic toys from his childhood in his parents’ garage.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Finally the camera settles on a young man sitting and crying in a London loo, feeling sorry for himself after his ex-girlfriend dumped him for his best friend from childhood.
  — Stuart Miller, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• From early childhood, he was constantly engaged in one entrepreneurial venture or another.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• Instead, Porte Jacquemus exhibits outside Fashion Week and invites his childhood idols and his grandmother.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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
• 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
• An irrepressibly cheery fountain of inspiration whose people-pleasing positivity was born from childhood trauma?
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024