How to Use childish in a Sentence

childish

adjective

• She has a childish face.
• We're tired of their childish games.
• He opened the gifts with childish delight.
• I find his humor very childish.
• To try to escape those things was childish and anti‐novelistic.
  — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• Lila’s childish pages were the secret heart of my book.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 16 Jan. 2020
• Some childish games are way harder for adults to play than meets the eye.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Dec. 2021
• The thing is, the childish anger expressed by Mars in Cancer can’t phase you.
  — Randon Rosenbohm, Allure, 30 Apr. 2019
• On Tires, Church plays Phil, Shane's rich but childish dad.
  — EW.com, 5 June 2025
• There is a childish Cold War era view of the world that says Americans are the good guys.
  — Matthew Gault writer, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• What sort of adult male speaks that slowly, in such a soft, childish tone?
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 31 May 2018
• What good does this kind of base, childish rhetoric do for any single one of us?
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 12 Oct. 2017
• Taj made a childish yelp, paddled back out, and the two traded three-foot tubes for the next hour.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2021
• Such tics may seem childish, but a lot of voters love this stuff.
  — Simon Shuster / Zurich, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
• See, the issue here isn’t that a college dude did a dumb, childish thing.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
• The Warriors star was not going to be called childish over that.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 18 Jan. 2018
• Dear Amy: My boyfriend of almost three years is very childish.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2021
• Dear Amy: My boyfriend of almost three years is very childish.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• Dear Amy: My boyfriend of almost three years is very childish.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2021
• Our childish dreams of how these things works have value.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• The games are childish with grave stakes, which almost feels like a metaphor for life itself.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 6 Oct. 2021
• Who knew such a childish game could teach such valuable lessons.
  — CBS News, 10 June 2018
• DeChambeau has shown a childish side at times, for better and for worse.
  — Jason Lusk, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2021
• That was a childish goal of the sort that had led her to challenge deëxtinction for so many years.
  — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
• That was a childish goal of the sort that had led her to challenge deëxtinction for so many years.
  — D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
• Techcrunch reacts to an embargo break in the most childish, toys-out-of-pram way.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2012
• Maybe this is just appealing to my simplest, most childish instincts, reacting to bright colours like a toddler might.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• When Smith drives us in the golf cart, hunched close to the wheel, a look of childish mischief spreads over his face.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
• My coworker said vanilla is childish.
  — Jessika Hardy, Refinery29, 22 Dec. 2025
• Smears, lies, attacks, and name calling is childish behavior, divisive, and bad for our country.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025