Example sentences for: childhood

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

  • Our long-standing friendship with Degas, which on our mother's side went back to their childhood, was broken off."

  • Then we take a similar journey with Jackie (Watson), who, denied a proper childhood and family life, pines away in foreign capitals, behaves with increasing waywardness and vulgarity (she adopts a bogus Continental accent), and expires in near solitude, with only her loyal sister to remind her of God's love.

  • As recovery is considerably more frequent in girls than in boys, the male-to-female ratio increases during childhood and adolescence to reach three or four males to every one female in adulthood.

  • He's never missed a high-school reunion, and he still finds time to eat dinner with childhood friends twice a week.

  • Her novels argue that criminals must pay for their actions--no forgiveness, no rehabilitation, no excuses whatsoever--but she's also admitted to bouts with childhood molestation, bulimia, and bipolar mood swings, and she has asked that people who suffer such traumas be given a little TLC.


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