pimply

Example Sentences

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One pimply teenage boy named Oscar explained he didn’t have the resources to pay for a lawyer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2025

While many of my pimply peers slept in, I woke up at 6:30 a.m. on weekdays to watch Bismarck, North Dakota’s local NBC news broadcast, which would then segue into “Today.”

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025

And so I started adolescence with the wrong bras, pimply and hairy, standing for hours in the drugstore trying to figure out what I could buy in order to fix myself.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2021

For an adolescent, gossip was about currying favor, remaining on the inside of a group as a pimply teen terrified of being pushed outside.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2021

He hardly spoke when he first came, skinny, pimply, beardless except for the babyhair on his upper lip and chin.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner