Words similar to adolescent

Example sentences for: adolescent

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

(At last year's Time magazine anniversary gala, I found myself positively tongue-tied, embarrassingly adolescent in my awkwardness, on being introduced to Lauren Bacall.)
Rhabdomyosarcoma is a malignant neoplasm of skeletal muscle, and is one of the most common soft tissue malignancies in the children and adolescent population.
That acknowledgment having been made, I find myself continually irritated by their cavalier dismissal of everything that human beings developed in the course of history: it reflects an adolescent mentality that is scornful of anything that might have taken place before these parvenu geniuses put finger to keyboard.
It is poetry to which one swooned as an adolescent.
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 .)