How to Use adolescent in a Sentence

adolescent

1 of 2 noun

• Their children are now adolescents.
• Fiona, then an adolescent, was found guilty of the murder of her mother and served time in prison.
  — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• The 67 adolescents in the same trial who received a placebo lost less than 1% of their weight over that time.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2023
• Who wouldn’t be, coming face to face with one’s own adolescent?
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
• This group includes children and adolescents with health risks and healthy adults under the age of about 60.
  — Carma Hassan, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• Here’s what parents and adolescents should know about weight loss drugs.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 19 July 2023
• Black children and adolescents are five times more likely to be killed by a gun than their white peers.
  — Amanda Joy Calhoun, Md, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
• Black adolescents are far less likely than their white peers to seek and find mental health care.
  — Annie Ma, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2023
• The vaccine can be used on adolescents 12 and up and data on that age group will be considered in June.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2023
• As an adolescent, Nico already spoke in the slow, booming tones that would inform her singing voice.
  — Brian Dillon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2022
• Silva was born in the Amazon and worked as a rubber tapper as an adolescent.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Dec. 2022
• What about the children and adolescents behind these numbers—the ones bearing the weight of active shooter drills?
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
• The center conducts research and treats thousands of adolescents and young adults per year.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• On a few occasions, a parent offered to leave the room, or an adolescent asked for privacy and the parent agreed.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• But what children and adolescents see online is not the only problem.
  — Steven Berkowitz, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2023
• Treatment guidelines tend to be based on case studies of adolescents and middle-age adults.
  — Audrey Richardson and Aurora Sousanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2024
• The increase is the result of two phenomena: the rising number of adolescents struggling with mental health and the dearth of resources to help them.
  — Jennifer Miller, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• What are the risks of prescribing these drugs to children and adolescents for lifelong weight management?
  — Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
• This was also the case among adolescents and young adults that were considered to be part of a more eco-conscious generation.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 4 May 2023
• Sofia, a tall adolescent with a pale complexion, was lying in a hospital bed.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• In adolescents, cycle length can be less predictable, ranging from 21-45 days.
  — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 14 Mar. 2023
• This selection of stories are told from the perspective of children and adolescents coming of age.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• The film follows Shafqat (Chowdhury), a father of two adolescents and a loving husband, who is a firm believer in the ideals of monogamy but the winds of change take a big test of his ideologies.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• And the New York adolescent had such a significant loss in bone density after more than two years on blockers that the parents halted use of the drugs.
  — Christina Jewett, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• But the rates at which adolescents pleaded or were found guilty varied widely, according to the Times/BDN analysis.
  — Callie Ferguson Ashley L. Conti, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Sure, it’s marketed toward adolescents, but there are lifelong lessons here for any age.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
• The figures make 2021 the second year in a row in which guns were the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States, surpassing cars, drug overdoses and cancer.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• Dixon, 50, said his radical politics emerged from reading about the Holocaust and apartheid-era South Africa as an adolescent.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• Research shows that often parents have no idea of their adolescent’s suicidal thoughts — all the more reason to make sure kids cannot access guns.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 28 Mar. 2023
• In a clinical trial, 132 adolescents who took the drug did much better than their adult counterparts.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023

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adolescent

2 of 2 adjective

• Some fans climbed the adolescent trees lining the street.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 8 Jan. 2024
• Any car that lets the adolescent rattling around inside of me out for a while has got to be good.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
• With his children, three adolescent boys and a 7-year-old girl, Vazquez wants to set a new standard.
  — Anna Guaracao, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• In an adolescent rite of passage, three children climb and hang upside down from the limbs of one of few trees.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
• My confused adolescent yearnings led me to study Russian for a year at the end of college.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024
• The adolescent chimps were more likely to take a risk and go for the cucumber or banana container than the adults, the study said.
  — Madeline Holcombe, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
• My parents got divorced, and my mom wasn’t in a good place during our adolescent years.
  — Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2023
• Having spent is more formative adolescent and teenage years in the Detroit area, Smith sought to bring his bring his skills back to a place that felt like home.
  — Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
• Salaam spent much of his adolescent years behind bars; nearly seven years in prison.
  — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the 1970s, when Dr. Shaffer was a young doctor, most people saw the suicide of a child or adolescent as a random and unpredictable act.
  — Ellen Barry, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Ginsburg is under no pretense that the adolescent years are easy — for anyone.
  — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN, 22 Feb. 2023
• Still, there’s adequate heart and humor and (TV-PG) gore here to serve as an amiable intro to horror for the adolescent set.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
• On stage and in his specials, Koy has joked about his son's hygiene and adolescent angst, with plenty of fodder coming from Joseph’s teenage years.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
• Fred became a part of my adolescent routine, and a respectable-presenting one at that.
  — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 22 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, two black-backs (adolescent males) picked a playful fight with each other.
  — Alisandra Puliti, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2023
• The mention of women’s rights refers to ensuring that adolescent girls have access to schools, the official said.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• Physical changes are a given for young adolescent girls, but the mental changes are just as worthy of talking about.
  — Olivia Bria, refinery29.com, 2 May 2023
• For most of her childhood and adolescent years, Cordero was surrounded by people who would make comments about her curls.
  — Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• People who knew him as a child in Hawaii and adolescent and teen in Arizona testified about abuse meted out to him by his mother, Ellen, who died in 2010.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• DeSantis, with his Yale and Harvard degrees, seems the most rattled by this adolescent.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
• What are the movies that defined our rites of passage — our adolescent longings, first-love tragedies, young-adulthood breakdowns, middle-aged yips?
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• Her world No longer tied to the adolescent narratives of her earlier career, Swift also had a new task at hand: world-building.
  — Raisa Bruner, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• Our daughter has been married a year now, but her old bedroom remains intact, a shrine to adolescent life in a previous decade.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2023
• The world is currently off track to reach its 2030 target of ending HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women.
  — Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Set against the backdrop of World War II, if follows an adolescent boy who is grieving the death of his mother and trying to adapt to life with his father’s new wife, who also happens to be his aunt.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
• Anne’s adolescent diary, first published in 1947, has since become one of the most celebrated and poignant artifacts of the Holocaust.
  — Julia M. Klein, wsj.com, 7 May 2023
• Furthermore, your adolescent children should also be aware of these guidelines and adhere to them!
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• In mid-September, after her name had become widely known, Ford—along with her husband, Russell, and their two adolescent sons—had moved out of their house.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
• Female boto dolphins with their calves and adolescent dolphins usually spend more time in these floodplains than males.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• If a friend posted something about dieting, for example, the post would be hidden from all adolescent users.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024