juvie

Example Sentences

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A troubled teen opts for church summer camp over a stretch in juvie in the inspirational 2021 musical romance “A Week Away.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2021

How does someone go from a warden at juvie to being lieutenant governor?

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2016

Creed begins in 1998, when Adonis Creed is an adolescent in juvie with a natural talent for taking on kids twice his size.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2015

I wonder if he has been to juvie before, but decide I don’t really care.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

They both sit back on the bed, and he tells her about visiting Quan in juvie, and the sequence of events that led him to Martel’s doorstep.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone