Examples of preteen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Skateboarding is new to the Olympics this year – and even a preteen competitor has medaled. — Pamela Falk, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2021 Vardar’s academy attracted the most talented prospects in Macedonia, and the competition for places — even for preteen boys — was fierce. — New York Times, 19 July 2021 That is the show’s soundtrack, drawn from mix tapes that Gamma made as a preteen in the 1990s after his family moved from Monterey, Calif., to Morgan City, La. — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021 The preteen smiled as the wildlife enthusiast draped the writhing, 10-foot snake around her shoulders. — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2021 Podcast with Amy Jo Martin where the preteen dished on the one lesson her dad has to learn over and over. — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021 Like Evans, Cummings began dominating his age group as a preteen. — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 July 2021 As a preteen Bassett wore a cosmetic cover over her everyday prosthetic. — Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 20 July 2021 The bones belong to an adult male, a preteen and an infant, according to the DNR. — From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 June 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Playing and watching team sports were the twin pillars of his preteen existence, and both pursuits were snatched away from him a matter of days. — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 19 May 2020 The incident drew national attention, in part because Block involved his preteen daughter in the ugly episode. — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019 Eighteen of them, including five preteen children, died in Putnam County, some 80 miles east of Nashville. — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020 An apparent domestic situation at a house in the 2700 block of Oakland Avenue South left two adults and two preteen children dead, according to John Elder, a spokesman for the Minneapolis Police Department. — Kristi Belcamino, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019 Shapiro said agents from his office discovered Sullivan’s penchant for viewing images of preteen children during an investigation on a file sharing network. — Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2019 Her family paid a smuggler to get her and her preteen daughter from Honduras to Mexico. — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 12 Feb. 2020 In 2014, two preteen girls lured a classmate into the woods on the pretense of everyday fun, and killed her. — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2020 The hit 1970s comedy starred Lavin as a widowed mother and aspiring actress working as a waitress in Phoenix while raising her preteen son, played by Philip. — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 11 Dec. 2019

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