How to Use juvenilia in a Sentence

juvenilia

plural noun

• This lyrical additive, in the past, has gone a long way toward cutting Wavves’ sugary juvenilia with charming self-awareness.
  — Larry Fitzmaurice, Pitchfork, 13 Nov. 2026
• Over and over, in her juvenilia, in her short fiction, in her poetry, and in her novel, Plath frames death as an opportunity for rebirth.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
• Anyone who ever wants to write my biography will have his/her work cut out for her/him, since virtually no documentation or juvenilia exist.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2025
• There is as little self or sentiment in her juvenilia as in her adult writing; her focus from the start was on sound and form, and her inspirations came not from her own sensibility but from other poems.
  — Frances Wilson september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
• Despite the heavy central theme of chronic illness, there’s a delicious bawdiness to Will There Ever Be Another You, a vulgar juvenilia evoking graffiti-tag genitals or the ding dong ditch scene from Billy Madison.
  — Eric Olson september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025