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

“If you can’t stick it out, I might have to figure out a way to go to juvie with you. And that would suck for both of us.”

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline