teenager

Example Sentences

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As a teenager, Woods left Columbus for Missouri in 1872 to take a job as a railroad fireman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

People in Lake Elsinore said she was a typical teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Others—including York, Clark’s enslaved manservant, and Sacagawea, a kidnapped Shoshone teenager pregnant with the child of the expedition’s interpreter, Charbonneau—did not have a say in the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"She grew up like a normal teenager and I think the young people have really taken to her story you know and formed that connection with her," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

His true luxuries were a fish pond and a garden, designed and built by himself, something he’d first done as a teenager.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French