kid

Example Sentences

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As a kid, she wanted to be a writer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Before that, as a kid, she was a softball infielder in Long Island and then at the University of Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Outside the stadium a small net had been set up and any kid who could put the ball in the goal would be entered in a raffle to be a ball boy on the field.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 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

Jonah thought about all those times she’d given him her hand to squeeze when he was a little kid getting shots or that time he had to have sixteen stitches in his knee.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix