How to Use pubescent in a Sentence

pubescent

adjective

• Some of the children were pre-pubescent minors, the release said.
  — Jane Florance, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• The graphic images showed a pre-pubescent girl laying on a bed with a pink shirt, exposed below the waist.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• While the college game was birthed in New Jersey, the state’s biggest program has regressed to look pubescent.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
• Some of the images reportedly were of pre-pubescent children.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
• Reynolds assaulted the pre-pubescent victim 15 to 50 times over several years.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2022
• One uncertainty is whether pre-pubescent boys face the same risk of heart inflammation in response to the vaccine that has been seen in teen boys and young men.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• In another image, court documents show, a pre-pubescent boy was lying nude on a bed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• But Gendron has not been only the mildly pubescent White male — still wet behind the ears — or younger adult with a deeply rooted hatred toward Blacks and the desire to kill.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Will’s declaration that the Mind Flayer is back is a cry for help that brings his friends back to his side, reunited as a taller and more visibly pubescent team.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 July 2019
• The trends helped normalize the sexualization of pubescent girls.
  — Jess Sims, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2021
• And at school, with pubescent boys cooped up for months at a time, slurs about homosexuality were the ones most often thrown at anyone who strayed very far from the strict confines of the norm.
  — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
• Porter had a cell phone, four hard drives plus a laptop with pornographic images of a pre-pubescent minor and another minor under 12, the FBI said.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• If Carell can overcome that pubescent mustache, the underlying message is, any dream is within reach.
  — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 3 Feb. 2017
• Yet these are the repulsive characters — part of American Greeting Co.'s collection of rubber balls with hideous faces — that have taken the pre-pubescent set by storm.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
• At the time, a social worker, foster parents and therapist pigeonholed the child, known then as Christina, as a troubled, pubescent girl who acted out for attention.
  — Samantha Young, sacbee, 2 July 2018
• Helker pleaded guilty to one count of foreign distribution of child pornography involving an image of a pubescent boy and prepubescent girls.
  — Scott Wente, Twin Cities, 13 Mar. 2017
• Leno by his own admission was inspired by the Brits, but his adaptation has the potential to appeal to more than pubescent boys excited by rock stars almost flipping a family car.
  — Jeremy Hart, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2009
• In addition to the Iceland study, other research has shown that pre-pubescent kids have a significantly lower likelihood of getting sick.
  — Lois Parshley, Science, 10 Dec. 2020
• Hormone treatment is not recommended for pre-pubescent children.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• The thinking, as explained by the former IBLP adherent who mentions the rule, was that exposure to female genitalia, even those belonging to an infant, would be too much temptation for a pubescent male.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• And yet all that feels like cold comfort during the two-plus hours of bland action, circuitous twists, creaky unfunniness, and insistent product placement that makes up the second outing for our pubescent Superman.
  — Charles Bramesco, Chron, 15 Mar. 2023
• Using the genre trappings of the superhero origin story, Amazon’s new drama The Power explores society’s preoccupation with and fear of pubescent girls.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023
• Using a trail of clues that included Deyte’s smartwatch, leaked e-mails, and Rogers’s computer, teams of pubescent cyber-forensic investigators were tasked with determining the culprit.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• As for the least propitious time or place in which to publish a wildly sophisticated novel about a middle-aged man violating a pubescent girl, Eisenhower’s America figured high on the list.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021
• But behind those scenes of pubescent angst and hilarity is a cutting narrative about a girl caught between her mother’s Christianity and her father’s Judaism, who tries desperately to relate to God outside all of that.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
• Harvested in the pubescent stage of the plant’s life, the leaves contain highly stimulating enzymatic properties that interact with dopamine and norepinephrine receptors in the brain to produce stimulant effects.
  — Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2022
• Saedi adroitly and humorously uses these universal pubescent ordeals to contextualize Iranian culture and the immigrant experience.
  — Jennifer Hubert Swan, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024