Example sentences for: kid

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

  • In fact, a Portnoy of the present, a kid with his nose pressed up against the window (to borrow the self-description of another ghetto-bred Jewish writer, Theodore H. White) would surely regard these stick-wielding, puck-handling lads as representing full, totally secure membership in the comfortable classes of American society.

  • "I didn't set out dreaming about being president when I was a kid, nor did I dream about being governor.

  • Those who like it say it's "a sweet, funny little movie" (Ansen, Newsweek ) and that "one finds oneself asking how such familiar material breeds contentment instead of contempt" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics also note that two great performances, by Shawn Hatosy as the kid and Alec Baldwin as his gruff dad, help lift the film above cliché.

  • Pokémon's inventor is a Japanese introvert and ex- Space Invaders addict who obsessively collected beetles as a kid.

  • Peter Duchin quotes Frank's advice to him: "Kid, don't waste your time with these bums.


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