How to Use childhood in a Sentence

childhood

noun

• Both men had unhappy childhoods.
• The war in Ukraine wrecked her city — and her childhood.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
• The first part of my childhood was spent in Lebanon, as my father is from there.
  — Nastya Platinova, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2024
• No one gets to choose the circumstances of their birth, or their childhood.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
• The window of my childhood house had been left open and there was a layer of ash on the top of my piano.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Much of O’Neal’s childhood was spent abroad, where his parents found work.
  — Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• So many of the things that brighten my life are tethered to the softest and brightest parts of my childhood.
  — Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
• To save herself, she is forced to team up with Rufus, whom she’s loathed since childhood.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
• Paul, 41, added that the depths of his childhood trauma are what resonated most with Adele.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• Like many people’s childhoods, my childhood was a lot like that.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2023
• Maybe those friends had Olympic size pools and guest houses to hang out in—but the comfort and ease of my husband's childhood home were more of a draw.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
• The movie is set in the same small village in the Cévennes Mountains where the director used to spend his childhood vacations.
  — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
• For the 58-year-old, whose love of Yes goes back to his childhood in the Seventies, the gig remains a dream job even after all these years.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
• Throwbacks to childhood days of Myrtle Beach or Carowinds summers will live in this space.
  — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• My brothers and sisters and I have never talked much about our childhood.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• In the front yard of Ruben Niebla’s childhood home, a small rectangular patch of grass served as a baseball infield.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2024
• Though death rates from childhood cancers continue to drop, diagnoses have been swelling for more than a decade in the U.S.
  — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
• What are some of your fondest memories from your childhood on set?
  — Madison Feller, ELLE, 12 May 2023
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which looks back on Shields' childhood.
  — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
• In the film, badass secret agent Sam is tasked with one of her hardest missions to date – being maid of honor for her childhood best friend.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
• Dear Miss Manners: My best friend since childhood is getting married in about six months’ time.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Square pizza, chicken nuggets, little cups of vanilla ice cream—these are the meals of my childhood and the stuff of pure nostalgia.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Sep. 2023
• In search of king salmon All of my childhood vacations involved fishing trips.
  — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
• Going to watch a Marvel movie reminded me of my childhood.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023
• Not in society and not in the law. Klimek: Jim would hear bits of stories about this period of time throughout his childhood.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
• The legendary duo, who have been friends since childhood, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 1 Apr. 2024
• Maggie, a transportation planner who lives in the greater Portland area, recalled a night in their childhood when her mother woke the two Derk girls in the dead of night.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Pop icon Britney Spears’s childhood home hit the real estate market this week.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
• The trend of adults buying toys for themselves is relatively new, but longing for the glory days of childhood is not.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 21 Oct. 2023
• Even in my childhood, my dad always swore by taking cold showers to push the immune system and get going in the morning.
  — Anna Bader, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024