Example sentences for: childish

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

  • I know what I'm talking about tho I may get drunk and act childish socially ...

  • melon, dimpled by the forceps mark of his accident or whatever extracted him from normalcy, dipped him in the searing, crushing waters of disfigurement and then returned himto the world to fill it with the childish

  • The childish exclamation peeyoo! , for instance, probably stems from a distorted rendering of phew! , just as another air-and-spit expression of disgust was once rendered as pfui! but gradually turned into fooey! , which is both easier to read and pronounce.

  • The fact that royal biographer Andrew Morton wrote the stories of both the late Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky has made the comparison irresistible, and it turns out to be apt: They were both childish women whose self-involvement nearly brought down their respective governments.

  • Read Maureen Gosling's journals about the making of Fitzcarraldo , or Bruce Chatwin's essay on Cobra Verde , and you discover a rather different Kinski: an irascible, lonely, lovable eccentric, whose fits of rage come and go like squalls, whose childish enthusiasm for filmmaking and playacting bursts through the put-on cynicism.


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