How to Use pubescent in a Sentence

pubescent

adjective

• That puts a brake on their pubescent growth spurts, leaving them with shorter adult heights.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2010
• Some of the children were pre-pubescent minors, the release said.
  — Jane Florance, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• The graphic images showed a pre-pubescent girl laying on a bed with a pink shirt, exposed below the waist.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Some of the images reportedly were of pre-pubescent children.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
• In another image, court documents show, a pre-pubescent boy was lying nude on a bed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• Pregnant women and pubescent teens experience faster nail growth.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
• Burrall was one of the actors who portrayed the Thriller singer, showcasing his pre-pubescent years.
  — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
• While the college game was birthed in New Jersey, the state’s biggest program has regressed to look pubescent.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
• The trends helped normalize the sexualization of pubescent girls.
  — Jess Sims, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2021
• Hormone treatment is not recommended for pre-pubescent children.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• If Carell can overcome that pubescent mustache, the underlying message is, any dream is within reach.
  — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 3 Feb. 2017
• Reynolds assaulted the pre-pubescent victim 15 to 50 times over several years.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2022
• One uncertainty is whether pre-pubescent boys face the same risk of heart inflammation in response to the vaccine that has been seen in teen boys and young men.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• And at school, with pubescent boys cooped up for months at a time, slurs about homosexuality were the ones most often thrown at anyone who strayed very far from the strict confines of the norm.
  — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
• Helker pleaded guilty to one count of foreign distribution of child pornography involving an image of a pubescent boy and prepubescent girls.
  — Scott Wente, Twin Cities, 13 Mar. 2017
• To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Will’s declaration that the Mind Flayer is back is a cry for help that brings his friends back to his side, reunited as a taller and more visibly pubescent team.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 July 2019
• My own curls arrived around age 13, another pubescent crisis to be dealt with along with the mustache that sprouted overnight and a sprinkling of T-zone blackheads.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 11 Apr. 2025
• The trailer introduces us to Anxiety, a new, pubescent emotion played by Maya Hawke, who comes bearing news of a bunch of new roommates.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2024
• And pubescent children will typically go on hormone replacement therapy.
  — Spencer MacNaughton, Them, 1 Feb. 2025
• My father, a psychologist, listened carefully and then gently suggested that the dream might reflect anxiety about my changing pubescent body.
  — Gillian Silverman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
• In addition to the Iceland study, other research has shown that pre-pubescent kids have a significantly lower likelihood of getting sick.
  — Lois Parshley, Science, 10 Dec. 2020
• But Gendron has not been only the mildly pubescent White male — still wet behind the ears — or younger adult with a deeply rooted hatred toward Blacks and the desire to kill.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Stemming Psychosis Although most pubescent children sail through this normal maturational process, those at risk of becoming derailed by it need help.
  — Victoria Costello, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2012
• Chad Bianco couldn’t answer a few simple questions from me without becoming angry and yelling out of frustration, demonstrating all of the restraint of a pubescent boy.
  — Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2026
• At the time, a social worker, foster parents and therapist pigeonholed the child, known then as Christina, as a troubled, pubescent girl who acted out for attention.
  — Samantha Young, sacbee, 2 July 2018
• Leno by his own admission was inspired by the Brits, but his adaptation has the potential to appeal to more than pubescent boys excited by rock stars almost flipping a family car.
  — Jeremy Hart, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2009
• Best Acne Treatments The Differin gel that many of us may have been prescribed to treat pubescent acne may still be worth a place in your acne-fighting routine.
  — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2025
• Porter had a cell phone, four hard drives plus a laptop with pornographic images of a pre-pubescent minor and another minor under 12, the FBI said.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• Hulu’s The Testaments, an adaptation of the sequel, spends its first season among privileged pubescent girls training to be Wives to powerful men.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 27 May 2026