How to Use childhood in a Sentence

childhood

noun

• Both men had unhappy childhoods.
• The war in Ukraine wrecked her city — and her childhood.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• So the Oscars have been the decor of my childhood dreams.
  — Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
• Philip, her third cousin, was a Greek prince but had spent most of his childhood in the U.K.
  — Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2022
• 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
• It’s about my mother and my childhood and my teenage years.
  — Will Tizard, Variety, 19 Nov. 2022
• Going through that on my own was a scary part of my childhood.
  — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
• Pyles is circling back to his childhood in a Big Spring truck stop.
  — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
• No one gets to choose the circumstances of their birth, or their childhood.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• Al’s Barber Shop — to get his hair cut by a childhood friend.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Daphne Steel has, in some ways, had a normal childhood.
  — Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 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
• Moss has heard this voice, and others like it, since childhood.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Going to a Powfu show is a lot like hanging out with a childhood friend for the evening.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 24 June 2022
• 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
• There’s no point in setting the record straight for the millionth time about my childhood, the school bullying.
  — Ling Ma, The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• The Dolton, Illinois, childhood home of Robert Prevost—a.k.a.
  — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 13 May 2025
• Paul, 41, added that the depths of his childhood trauma are what resonated most with Adele.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 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
• When the funding for her art gallery in New York City falls through, she's forced to move back into her childhood home.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
• Cage, as per the synopsis, plays a man who returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 2 May 2025
• Since the minute Alessia was born, Rodriguez has gone above and beyond to protect her childhood.
  — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
• The ice cream chain has just announced the return of the Oreo Dirt Pie Blizzard, complete with gummy worms sure to take you back to childhood.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
• This cookie, made with a deliciously crispy exterior of cornflakes, has a perfectly sweet interior thanks to maraschino cherries—a forever childhood favorite.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 7 June 2025