How to Use adolescence in a Sentence

adolescence

noun
Definition of adolescencenext
Synonyms for adolescencenext
  • Their children are on the verge of adolescence.
  • He struggled through his adolescence.
  • But the genre in the 1970s was still in its adolescence.
    — Big Boi With Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • Having spent his adolescence in the Detroit area, Smith sought to bring his skills back to a place that felt like home.
    — Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
  • He’s grown a goatee and added muscle to his frame, but still has the same laugh and sincere smile of his adolescence.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The music of my adolescence is the subject of another series at the Coolidge.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • All those places had their moments; none made it past adolescence.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
  • My mouth was now a barricade between me and the onslaught of adolescence, a broke-glass fence around my body.
    — Safiya Sinclair, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • For their part, my parents were baffled at the changes that had come over me since early adolescence.
    — Lucy Sante, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
  • That might have been adolescence or testosterone or whatever the f--- was running through my body at the time.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • Twizzle would be great in any home willing to love and care for her through her puppy adolescence.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Cooking is her current therapy I was born and raised in Jamaica and came to the States in my late adolescence.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2023
  • My access to a second adolescence has been lonely and scary.
    — Alán Pelaez Lopez, refinery29.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Mary Weiss, the singer who channeled the melodrama of adolescence as the lead vocalist of the quintessential girl group the Shangri-Las, has died at the age of 75.
    — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Researchers say those trends point to a new life stage, tucked between adolescence and full adulthood.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Dating is a normal part of adolescence – and a formative one at that.
    — Kirsi Goldynia, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Most kids who experience them tend to grow out of them by adolescence.
    — David Metzger, Parents, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Indeed, Stacy’s big-picture dilemma is how to balance the dramas of adolescence with a desire to do right in the eyes of, well, God.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • He was born in the United States but spent significant time in his adolescence and early adult years in Brazil.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • As Barbie is all about girls on the cusp of adolescence, why not read some real life stories of inspiring teenagers?
    — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 22 July 2023
  • That said, adolescence is a time when kids must learn to become independent, which is scary.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Instead, her work spoke to the realities of adolescence that some adults avoid, so much so that fans sent Blume letters about their own lives.
    — Elise Hannum, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The series, which was a spinoff of Diff'rent Strokes, followed the ups and downs of a group of girls navigating adolescence while attending a boarding school.
    — Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
  • Zee struggled to find contentment with her body in her adolescence.
    — Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Before tragedy struck, Tyler Jacoby Lawrence was a child, deep in the normal throes of adolescence, two weeks removed, his nana says, from his first kiss.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The ability to form healthy bonds is meant to be cultivated in adolescence.
    — Jenae Harris, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
  • The young men, ranging from adulthood to adolescence, are competing, above all, for their father’s love.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Johnson, getting dressed for work has been a struggle since adolescence.
    — Shane O’Neill, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Much of his adolescence was spent at strip malls playing pool with friends, and trying out the seemingly endless cuisines on offer.
    — Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023

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