Example sentences for: adolescent

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

  • Early identification, screening, and brief intervention for adolescent alcohol use.

  • Did I respond to him as an adolescent because Pollock was a misbehaved, grandiose adolescent himself?

  • A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)

  • I was an adolescent boy and would enjoy being one again for a couple of hours.

  • This all means that "parents have returned to adolescent upbringing in ways that have rendered their children's normally destructive impulses mute."


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