How to Use teenage in a Sentence

teenage

adjective
Definition of teenagenext
Synonyms for teenagenext
  • As 2 Live Crew blared from the speakers, the teenage Rodgers couldn’t help but dance.
    — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • As Cassie adjusts to the new terms of her life, Ezekiel hunts for three teenage girls in the city.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2024
  • On May 28, a teenage boy found Anna’s body in a ravine.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • O’Connor’s teenage son Shane died by suicide last year.
    — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • The mother of Ray’s teenage son died from cancer last month and Ray wants to take custody.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • When Kim Young-soo gets out of jail and starts stalking teenage girls again, Tae-sung is able to track him down.
    — Kayti Burt, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • There is no cure, and many children don’t survive past their teenage years.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • In the future, Charles dies and is sent back to 1987 to help his teenage self navigate a better life.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Her teenage kid, Sky (Elsie Fisher), is also in town with her.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • Not far behind Brady is his teenage son, who stands between the two and has been closing in on his dad's height over the last year.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The jetpack flier is Sophie (Chloe Coleman), a teenage spy with hair like a tent of frizz.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 July 2024
  • Vicks VapoRub), raising a (smelly) teenage boy and being broke.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Only Jules is allowed to have any fun at all, but even she is confined to angsty teenage anger.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972, his teenage years were shaped — as so many teenage years are — by music.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2024
  • For the music lover There’s a reason people often think of their teenage years as a soundtrack.
    — Leigh-Ann Jackson, wsj.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Among the most famous canteen treats were popcorn balls, which teenage girls on the platform would pass on to soldiers.
    — Annika Hipple, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Word quickly spread around town about Houston, the teenage girl with the octave-spanning voice of an angel.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2023
  • For Noam and Alma Or, teenage siblings released this week, the joy of being freed was tempered by the news of a parent’s death.
    — Russell Goldman, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Two teenage girls were injured while in waist-deep water about 4 miles away from the first incident.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 5 July 2024
  • The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The story of a boy born into poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia. 6.
    — The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Even Adam Sandler has to work hard to get his teenage daughters' attention.
    — Alex Cramer, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Two months before, a teenage girl was also killed in a shark attack in Western Australia.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Described as the light of his family, Sandoval leaves behind a teenage son and 5-year-old daughter.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Nielsen says 53% more teenage girls watched Sunday Night Football than last season, thanks to the pop star’s attendance.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Hormonal Changes The surge of hormones during the late teenage years can stimulate the growth and emergence of wisdom teeth.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Infants born to teenage women are also more likely to be overweight or preterm.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In the episode, Seyfried plays a teenage girl who, days after going missing, is found tied up at a construction site and says she's been attacked.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • In the end, eighty-year-old participants were able to accurately identify the themes at roughly the same rate as their teenage counterparts.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 25 July 2024
  • The teenage victim in this case was given the pseudonym Jane Roe in court documents, which identified her and her mother as relatives of Fasold’s who lived out of town.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2024

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