childish

Example Sentences

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“The childish scribbling handwriting is also a red herring for some of the more serious and sinister themes in the book, “ says Cash.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

"It was a childish escapade that got out of hand very quickly with tragic consequences," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

"We were just nowhere near it really. We were never in this game in any aspect. We looked like a childish team that had no intent about us," Parker said.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

After 3½ decades of Francoism, during which, the author reminds us, the dictator “decided that Spaniards were too childish to govern themselves,” there was a palpable sense of a nation orphaned.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The sense of freedom had departed, and the childish desire to run across the lawns in sand-shoes.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier