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:
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."