Example sentences for: teen-ager

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

  • West is self-made intellectual who found Kierkegaard in a bookmobile, was influenced by the Black Panthers as a teen-ager, and found his way to Karl Barth and John Dewey.

  • I'm not sure whether the latter has any currency in America, but here in Australia it is often uttered in a pleasant--and perhaps patronizing tone of voice in instances such as, say, insisting to a reluctant teen-ager that he march off and do his homework.

  • Every Friday and Saturday night, from 6 p.m. on, no teen-ager under 16 may enter the mall unless accompanied by a parent or adult over 21--this at a place where kids aren't watching TV, aren't driving recklessly, aren't having sex or committing prosecutable crimes.

  • The spot shifts to a fresh-faced blond teen-ager lighting up in what appears to be a park.

  • "The house in Amsterdam which hid Jewish teen-ager Anne Frank during World War II officially unveiled its new look Tuesday after 10 years of renovation," Reuters reports.


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