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:

  • Her protagonist (Natasha Lyonne) spends her teen-age years being shuttled with her two brothers from one cheap dive to another in the 90210 ZIP code, all because her egregiously unsuccessful father (Alan Arkin) wants them to be educated in the best schools.

  • Keegan said Milosevic's main mistake may have been to send barely trained teen-age conscripts to Kosovo, since their morale is especially vulnerable.

  • 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.

  • Teen-age girls are taking them to improve performance and win college athletic scholarships.

  • The first instance concerns Bennett's discussion of teen-age pregnancy . Unlike unwed pregnancy, which is rising , teen pregnancy is sharply declining . But Bennett leads off his chapter on "Youth Behavior" with the shocking news, presented in large boldface type, that "[b]etween 1990 and 1996, the percentage of all teen-age mothers who are unmarried has increased 12 percent."


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