juvenile

Example Sentences

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Charlie suggested to the local priest the idea of using the parish church's juvenile sodality - a religious group for young parishioners - as the basis for a football league.

From BBC

If only he’d caught half the heat as Wasserman, he might have retreated long enough to spare us from his juvenile X posts or his next monstrosity of a car design.

From Los Angeles Times

But because he was 17 at the time, Perez, who has pleaded not guilty, is being prosecuted as a juvenile — at least for now.

From Los Angeles Times

Because the specimen is a juvenile, scientists cannot yet confirm whether adult individuals of the species retained the same structures as they matured.

From Science Daily

A juvenile court in the Paris suburb of Creteil late Wednesday said it had sentenced two of the men, who were 15 years old at the time, to 10 years in jail.

From Barron's