Example sentences for: teens

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

  • Since they were all teens, he sarcastically asked them if they had any advice for the Youth of America, and Moesha literally replied that if they believed in themselves, they could make their dreams come true.

  • I think I first bought a recording of Muskrat Ramble back in about 1940, when I was in my early teens.

  • The daughter of long-divorced parents--a mother who is a New Age therapist and a father who was a Grateful Dead hanger-on--Courtney left home while in her teens and blew a meager trust fund traveling the world.

  • It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)

  • If our teens and pre-teens are old enough to kill--and the schoolyard massacres have proved that--they're certainly old enough to defend themselves.


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