How to Use puberty in a Sentence

puberty

noun

• He reached puberty later than most of his classmates.
• And the best way to think about that is again, puberty.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
• Since the 1970’s, the age of puberty has gotten younger.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• Some may say that the awkward milestones of puberty are best left in the past.
  — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
• While her peers are still in the throes of puberty, she’s already gone through menopause.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
• So like in middle school, the one kid goes through puberty.
  — SI.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Hatching is about a lot of things: the horrors of puberty not least among them.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2022
• They are made of plants, so how would puberty happen to them?
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
• On top of all that, girls are going through puberty at younger ages.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
• Sheldon struggles to cope with the first signs of puberty.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 May 2022
• To kick-start puberty and calm the haters, Ritchson threw himself into the gym.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• The timing of puberty plays a pivotal role in when a girl reaches their full adult height.
  — Maria Carter, Parents, 5 July 2023
• The word alone — puberty — conjures the need to stockpile zit cream and blare grunge music.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• Joey, a boy soprano and the star of his choir, hits puberty just before the big contest the choir needs to win to stay alive.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• For many girls, migraine starts with the onset of puberty.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 16 July 2019
• Her singing hadn’t yet gone through the puberty of playing Etta James.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2022
• This isn't the first study to find earlier onset of puberty in boys.
  — Minali Nigam, CNN, 22 July 2019
• The marks appear when there is rapid stretching of the skin, like in pregnancy and puberty.
  — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 12 Jan. 2018
• Young attributes the shift to puberty happening a lot sooner for kids than in the past.
  — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Dec. 2019
• Around the time of puberty, the risk of teenagers both getting and transmitting the virus increases.
  — Lois Parshley, Science, 10 Dec. 2020
• That year passed and, going through puberty yet again, testosterone changed my body and mind.
  — Lara Americo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Or the fact that all three of her children with Donald Trump reached puberty inside its walls.
  — Curbed, 12 Sep. 2023
• The boys and girls were divided into two groups to learn about puberty.
  — New York Times, 7 July 2021
• Maybe her kid wasn’t trans; maybe her kid was just dealing with the regular angst of puberty.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
• Learning this craft is a rite of passage when girls reach puberty.
  — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
• Most of us have just those types of memories from puberty.
  — Lisa Jarvis, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
• When a person is past the start of puberty, care may include hormones.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
• This is straight from the Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson puberty catalog.
  — Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 11 Feb. 2022
• Spotify is reaching the age of puberty and still has the chaos and creativity of a teenager — the kind who might wreck the car or rewrite the rules.
  — Jeff Rabhan, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2025
• After puberty’s onset, and after consulting mental health providers, doctors and parents, trans adolescents can be prescribed puberty blockers, which temporarily pause the body from producing the hormones that cause pubertal changes.
  — Grace Abels, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025