Example sentences for: teen-age

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

  • But now the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate seems to be leveling off--reflecting, Chatterbox supposes, some hard-won equilibrium between teen-agers' greater use of contraceptives, on the one hand, and their greater disinclination to marry their high school sweethearts, on the other.

  • sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, "Kids," a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father).

  • The teen-age Stauffenberg brothers were the most ardent disciples of his last years.

  • A1995 government study found that while 38 percent of white teen-age boys smoke cigarettes, only 19 percent of their black contemporaries do.

  • The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing.


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