Example sentences for: adolescence

How can you use “adolescence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Because 91% of study participants were born in the United States, the majority of women also lived through adolescence under similar conditions.

  • A truly weird actor who, in Manhunter (1986), made for an eerier Hannibal Lecter than Anthony Hopkins, Cox rules with the kind of settled irritability that suggests why prep schools are petri dishes for acts of adolescence defiance.

  • Culturebox called Joseph Kett, a professor at the University of Virginia and the leading historian of adolescence in America.

  • It has been heartening to see some of my fellow survivors of mid-'70s adolescence (post-Vietnam, post-Watergate, pre-punk, pre-Reagan) finally clear their heads of all the drugs and bad music and put those "lost" years into perspective.

  • Baden-Powell considered sexual desire a transitory phase in adolescence, and he was obsessed with self-abuse.


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