Example sentences for: teen-agers

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

  • The weight of the evidence suggests that teen-agers' decisions whether or not to engage in sexual activity don't have much to do with whether the government gives them contraceptives.

  • The message is that there's a right way to dress and a right set of music to listen to and that hippies, geeks, angry teen-agers, and other marginal people would make life easier for themselves if they'd just get with the program.

  • The horror genre lost its life's blood when filmmakers began to worry about being laughed at by teen-agers who'd seen it all before, and to incorporate kids' imagined responses into their pictures--so that you got the movie and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 burlesque of the movie at the same time.

  • Simpson-- to O.J. , meaning "to slash"--shows some signs of acceptance among teen-agers ( O.J. had a previous life as an eponym, denoting a big car of the kind Simpson drove in his commercials for Hertz.

  • While underclass teen-agers may consciously have no interest other than in fooling around, their underlying reproductive strategy is a wide dissemination of genes to numerous offspring in the statistical hope that a few will make it.


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