kid

Example Sentences

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As a kid, she wanted to be a writer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

For the kid I once was, the same number means the opposite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

“Now, I’m just like, ‘You come in, you try to remember which kid has what sport or who you’re picking up.’

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

So was, I kid you not, a young man named Stefano Forte, who is president of the New York Young Republicans.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

There’s a dark-haired little kid on Dad’s other side who must be Eliana’s cousin or something, because Eliana’s family comes next.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison