How to Use childhood in a Sentence

childhood

noun
  • Both men had unhappy childhoods.
  • The war in Ukraine wrecked her city — and her childhood.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • So the Oscars have been the decor of my childhood dreams.
    Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • For most of my childhood, my dad was in the Army Reserves.
    Rosa Evans, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The first part of my childhood was spent in Lebanon, as my father is from there.
    Nastya Platinova, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • It’s about my mother and my childhood and my teenage years.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Going through that on my own was a scary part of my childhood.
    Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Pyles is circling back to his childhood in a Big Spring truck stop.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
  • No one gets to choose the circumstances of their birth, or their childhood.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Al’s Barber Shop — to get his hair cut by a childhood friend.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Daphne Steel has, in some ways, had a normal childhood.
    Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The window of my childhood house had been left open and there was a layer of ash on the top of my piano.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Moss has heard this voice, and others like it, since childhood.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • On the walls were nature scenes, visions of his childhood.
    Jay Deitcher, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
  • Much of O’Neal’s childhood was spent abroad, where his parents found work.
    Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • So many of the things that brighten my life are tethered to the softest and brightest parts of my childhood.
    Julia Carmel, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The author has often talked about her childhood and the lessons that both parents taught her.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • Masako spent parts of her childhood in Moscow, Tokyo and Boston.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • To save herself, she is forced to team up with Rufus, whom she’s loathed since childhood.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Paul, 41, added that the depths of his childhood trauma are what resonated most with Adele.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • So, too, is the inari ($3) a sweet tofu pocket that was a favorite dessert from his childhood.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • When the funding for her art gallery in New York City falls through, she's forced to move back into her childhood home.
    Esther Kang, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Since the minute Alessia was born, Rodriguez has gone above and beyond to protect her childhood.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • But instead of working your way through the same old shows, have a childhood favorites marathon.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Like many people’s childhoods, my childhood was a lot like that.
    Kyle Denis, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The trio soon thereafter returned to Guatemala, where Blackmon spent most of his childhood.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
  • His parents still live in Overland Park, about a mile from Kaine’s childhood home.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 19 May 2024
  • Maybe those friends had Olympic size pools and guest houses to hang out in—but the comfort and ease of my husband's childhood home were more of a draw.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 June 2023
  • Cornejo arrived with his sister, Pamela, who’s also his manager; her childhood best friend who grew up across the street; his cousin; and his creative director, Ozzie.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Surratt and Hernandez bought the property in 2003 to restore some of the memories Hernandez had from childhood summers there.
    Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025

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