teens

How to use teens in a sentence

But she was half a dozen years older than de Brus, who was still in his teens and was never distinguished for enterprise.

There was a Miss Mayblunt, no longer in her teens, who looked at the world through lorgnettes and with the keenest interest.

Moreover, let it be remembered she was at this time not a girl in her teens, but a woman of nearly forty-four.

The Fairy Prince was nearing home at last, and a tall, shy maid in her teens was glad that he was on the way.

MAID SALLYHARRIET A. CHEEVER

Then Betsy would redden and toss her head, for, like most girls in their early teens, she wished to be thought older than she was.

In his teens he was despatched to London to serve his apprenticeship to a haberdasher in Lawrence Lane.

WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMS

You are only doing what most boys in your position do in their teens.

QUINALICE HEGAN RICE

Balls and theatres she eschews as "worldly," and yet she is only just out of her teens.

MYSTIC LONDON:CHARLES MAURICE DAVIES

Girls are young ladies when they get into their teens, Aunt Maria says.

Some years ago, a lady not yet out of her teens, and suddenly reduced in fortune, went to Virginia to teach.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985