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:

  • A recent study from California's Public Policy Institute, for example, found that nine out of 10 teen-age welfare mothers in the state have income sources other than AFDC.

  • At MGM, Louis B. Mayer produced the bourgeois counterpart, the obscenely successful Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, later teamed in the archetypal teen pix Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway . Universal made a likewise profitable series with Deanna Durbin, and over at RKO in the '40s, the teen-age Shirley Temple starred in movies like The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer . It is in 1949 that the echt misunderstood teen film Knock on Any Door was made, starring John Derek as the misfit who wanted to "live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse."

  • An example Tripp gives in court papers is the unflattering New Yorker profile that revealed her teen-age grand larceny arrest and also that Tripp didn't disclose the arrest in her Pentagon security clearance form.

  • While I have met with the president at the White House on occasion, I did so only to discuss matters relating to family structure, teen-age pregnancy, and social consequences.

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


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