How to Use juvenile in a Sentence

juvenile

1 of 2 adjective

• She criticized his juvenile behavior at the party.
• Four of the people shot are adult women, two are adult men, and one is a juvenile male.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
• The shoe has long retained its ties to childhood, to the point that many ditch them out of fear of being juvenile.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2023
• For decades, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has reared juvenile fish to help boost the creatures’ numbers in the wild.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• The driver of the Dodge and a juvenile passenger were injured, police said.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 23 Mar. 2023
• On Wednesday, Bloom ordered a fifth teen transferred to a state juvenile prison.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 4 May 2023
• This was less Big Brother than baby brother: a juvenile insult meant to wind up the base.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The juvenile tyrannosaur, which was between 5 and 7 years old, likely had to chase down these fast, turkey-sized prey.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• Two juvenile victims taken to the hospital with wounds to the upper body.
  — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• Within days of eating that haunch, the dinosaur — a juvenile Gorgosaurus that stood 5 and a half feet tall at the hip — ended up dead in a river.
  — Michael Greshko, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Children’s and juvenile books, paperbacks and CDs are 25 cents or 5 for $1.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• The bodies of three people, two adults and a juvenile girl, were recovered by search and rescue teams as of Tuesday evening.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• The juvenile victim is a student at the high school, who was treated for injuries that were not life threatening.
  — Andrea Klick, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
• The couple's juvenile son tried to run in and break it up, but Jacobo allegedly aimed the weapon at him, too, sending the panicked teen sprawling back out the door.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
• The key to this pairing is to use the pink sparingly as an accent to keep it from reading too feminine or juvenile.
  — Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2023
• But there seems to be a difference in how people on the outside of this juvenile justice system see things and how people on the inside do.
  — ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• They may have been involved in the past themselves with the juvenile or criminal justice systems.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 12 Feb. 2024
• Minors being charged as adults can be held at a juvenile detention center or a jail for adults.
  — The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
• Officers located a juvenile boy in the area in possession of a firearm.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
• Her son was held without bail at a juvenile detention hall.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• Debora was facing a three-year sentence in a juvenile work camp.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
• Staff in juvenile lockups are not allowed to use stun guns on youth, according to IDJJ.
  — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2023
• This is not the first time Dallas County’s juvenile system has been scrutinized for its care of children.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Agile juvenile tyrannosaurs were able to run down, kill and subsist on animals like the smaller Citipes.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• The lander that made the finding photographed a single juvenile snailfish at 8,336 meters.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
• They were also called to respond to a juvenile male student who also suffered a head injury.
  — The Enquirer, 5 Jan. 2024
• The agency released photos of the juvenile suspects in its March 14 announcement.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2024
• Police took the teen into custody and placed them in juvenile detention.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• Over the years, scores of studies have shown black bears to be formidable predators of juvenile moose—particularly when there are no grizzlies around to compete for the prey.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 10 Apr. 2024
• The device doesn’t have a top, Pisano said, because the juvenile coral needs sunlight and the parrot fish don’t generally want to position themselves facing downward to eat.
  — David Fischer, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2024

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juvenile

2 of 2 noun

• She works to keep juveniles away from drugs.
• The killings of Irving and Avion bring to three the number of juveniles killed in D.C. this year.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• The largest juvenile took on the alpha role and led the charge against the intruder.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 Feb. 2024
• Haskell would have been a juvenile at the time of the incident, and no charges were filed.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Deputies arrived at the scene and found the juveniles lying in the roadway.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
• It’s thought that juveniles were flat-headed and that the dome grew with age.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2023
• The suspect, who is a juvenile, was not armed at the time of the arrest, police said.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• At just two feet long, juveniles can be snatched out of the water with one hand.
  — Freda Kreier, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Three adults and three juveniles have been charged thus far.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
• The melee left a juvenile with a bloody nose, according to the station.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2023
• The adults did not have teeth, losing them as juveniles.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• There have been 11 of our juveniles killed in homicides.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• He was charged as a juvenile and his name was not made public.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
• The juveniles left the store, but two boys, 13 and 15, were quickly arrested.
  — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• Some of the victims are juveniles, but their ages are not yet known, police said.
  — Jessica Gorman, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2023
• Two young juveniles who were also inside the home at the time were not injured.
  — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
• The news also comes as the number of juveniles charged in connection with the case rises from two to three.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• Two other juveniles were stopped and detained in the 1400 block of Southwest Bertha Blvd.
  — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
• The Enquirer does not name juveniles charged with crimes.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2023
• The fight ended when one of the juveniles stabbed the other juvenile, Katra said.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
• Both Galvan and the juvenile admitted the gun was the juvenile's and was in his possession at the time of the shooting.
  — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 17 Mar. 2024
• The suit targets the state’s decision to house the juveniles, the majority of whom are Black boys, in the former death row section of the prison.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• None of the victims suffered life-threatening wounds and two of those hit were juveniles.
  — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 5 July 2023
• The facility likely does not have enough staff to be able to hold any more juveniles.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 26 July 2023
• For starters, the weapon was legal to own, and Michigan had no law at the time requiring the gun to be properly stored away from juveniles.
  — Thaddeus Hoffmeister, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• It was later learned there was a second shooting victim, a juvenile, the city said.
  — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
• Charges against the 17-year-old driver were upgraded to murder on Aug. 29, and judges ruled on Wednesday that the two juveniles will be tried as adults.
  — David Bauder, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
• The two specimens, though juveniles, each measured more than 20 feet in length.
  — Shamilee Vellu, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• While none of the juveniles had evidence of dental caries, 60 percent of the adult remains showed signs of tooth decay.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
• The three girls, who have not been identified publicly by law enforcement due to their age, have been charged as juveniles and have pleaded not guilty, The Washington Post reported.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024