teenager

Example Sentences

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As a teenager, she applied to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, paid her fee and was fingerprinted for a background check.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

In April 2025 he made similar remarks to Fox News’ Jesse Watters, asserting that “an American teenager today has less testosterone than a 68-year old American man.”

From Salon • May 15, 2026

Farah did eventually tell her parents as an older teenager - but she says they did not believe her and she then left the family home.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

The baby will be the pair’s first but the third for Foxx, who is also the father to 32-year-old actor Corinne Foxx, and teenager Anelise Bishop.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Until he was a teenager, his family lived in the country several miles from Durham, tending a small farm of tobacco and corn using a team of mules.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson