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.
  • Top surgery is available to adults and people in later adolescence.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Health.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Part of adolescence is finding fault with one’s parents—this is inevitable.
    — Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
  • On one group date to a mock prom, many of his fellow contestants are seen reliving their adolescence on the dance floor.
    — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The talk show host also said having children changed her perspective on her own adolescence.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Euphoria taps into the idea that adolescence these days is bleak, so bleak that there’s nothing anyone can do but laugh and walk away.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The animated film follows a teenage girl who poofs into a red panda— a metaphor for adolescence.
    — Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Navigating childhood and adolescence is a complex balancing act at the best of times.
    — Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
  • During adolescence, the brain undergoes major changes in the way neurons, or nerve cells that send messages throughout the body, connect to other parts of the body.
    — Omer Awan, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Duke is deep in the hate hole that is female adolescence — desperately uncomfortable with everything about herself.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • No matter what their cultural background, mothers suffer most directly from the love/hate whiplash of adolescence, and their pain and confusion are just as real, though often quite frightening.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Meilin feels between being a dutiful daughter while experiencing the disarray of adolescence.
    — NBC News, 8 Mar. 2022
  • But the genre in the 1970s was still in its adolescence.
    — Big Boi With Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2023
  • Once adolescence got them in its grip, the tenor of the visits changed.
    — Amy Randall, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2022
  • On the brink of adolescence, Ian’s and Roland’s paths diverge.
    — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Most of the time, those rapid and intense mood shifts are a normal part of adolescence.
    — Amy Morin, Parents, 23 July 2024
  • These are the all-too-real emotions of adolescence and, at times, of life.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Among them: love, heartbreak, and the angst of adolescence and adulthood.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The rates were also lower in this age group than were seen in adolescence.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • 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
  • Now, with the help of his two friends, Danny fights ghosts while dealing with the daily stress of adolescence.
    — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Not that the movie subscribes to the idea of adolescence as a carefree, unburdened time.
    — A.a. Dowd, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
  • Sometimes Adebimpe sounds like a stoned drill sergeant, and at other times like a kid on the brink of adolescence.
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The music of my adolescence is the subject of another series at the Coolidge.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Meet Mei Lee, a dorky 13-year-old torn between remaining a dutiful daughter to her overprotective mother and the chaos of adolescence.
    — Rodney Ho, ajc, 7 Mar. 2022
  • 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

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