How to Use prepubescent in a Sentence

prepubescent

adjective
  • How much porn is too much porn for a prepubescent mind?
    Shannon Lell, Longreads, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Karageanes said it should not be used on prepubescent girls.
    Mark Alesia, Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The Balthus work at the Met, that’s about how men experience the world, how men view prepubescent girls.
    Michael Slenske and Molly Langmuir, The Cut, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Fox, a prepubescent girl with braces who hadn’t had her first kiss, ended up in Nash’s bedroom.
    Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The film was a lot about acknowledging the voice of the prepubescent girl, letting my child self speak and showing things from her point of view.
    Abigail Pesta, Marie Claire, 24 May 2018
  • Too many prepubescent kids are devoting their time to one sport only.
    Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Here, a prepubescent girl with a body not unlike Degas’s little dancer, is shown clothed in and surrounded by gold, standing in the dusty yard of a decrepit house.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The boys are prepubescent, but their exact age is unclear, as is their relationship to each other.
    Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 28 June 2023
  • Police found five explicit images of prepubescent girls on Wyler's phone.
    Vic Ryckaert, Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Then his hair is irrelevant for a few prepubescent chapters.
    Lauren Larson, GQ, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Among the images federal agents allegedly found in Meek’s possession was one of a naked prepubescent boy, a strap crossing his face, his mouth forced open and his hands bound to his feet.
    Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • A technician located a photo that Riddet described as a nude prepubescent girl on a bed.
    Tom Jackman, Orange County Register, 10 Jan. 2017
  • One of the images depicted a prepubescent girl being raped by an adult male, according to court documents.
    Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The general rule for kids’ strength-building is that prepubescent children are safest doing body-weight exercises, such as push-ups and situps, while teenagers can lift weights.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Doncic wanted to play so often that Jernej Smolnikar, another of his youth coaches, worried about how his prepubescent body would absorb some of the drills.
    Jonathan Abrams, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Some of the images and videos depicted prepubescent minors and sadomasochistic conduct.
    Madison Bateman, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 25 Oct. 2021
  • All but two of the videos depict men and women sexually assaulting prepubescent girls, the records indicate.
    Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
  • In any form, crushes are common among prepubescent kids and satisfy important needs.
    Elissa Strauss, CNN, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The images were mostly prepubescent children and dated back to 1996, the newspaper reported.
    orlandosentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • In December 2011, one of Meade’s technicians located a photo that Riddet described as a nude prepubescent girl on a bed.
    The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 10 Jan. 2017
  • But the rapper had been replaced by a chorus of exuberant, Auto-Tuned, prepubescent children.
    Zachary Jason, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Human rights groups have documented cases of prepubescent girls bleeding to death from being raped by husbands.
    Ahmed Al-Haj and Maggie Michael | Ap, Washington Post, 27 May 2017
  • Multiple images of prepubescent boys in bathtubs and locker rooms were found in the Kik application on Spencer’s iPhone, according to the affidavit.
    Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Mercury News, 9 May 2017
  • That concept packs a lot of promise — a prepubescent reaction to growing up — but fails to muster anything particularly scary.
    Gem Seddon, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Some of the images showed prepubescent children bound with ropes or handcuffs while being sexually abused, according to the documents.
    Tony Rizzo, kansascity.com, 1 May 2017
  • The possibility of just going to back to the days when psychiatrists didn't diagnose prepubescent children with bipolar (except in very rare cases) seems to not be on the table.
    Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2012
  • The musical centers on a fictional spelling bee in which fifth-grade students overcome adversity and act out prepubescent high jinks.
    Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The new show’s prepubescent wild card, its element of conflict, its chief purveyor of precocious wisecrackery, is Izzy (Quinn Copeland), who has also been abandoned by her mother, and thus worms her way into Punky’s heart and home.
    John Anderson, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In June 2016, Corum sent images of prepubescent children being abused to another person over the internet, officials said.
    Jordan Cutler-Tietjen, sacbee, 11 June 2018
  • Olson said some critics incorrectly concluded that gender-altering surgery is being performed on the prepubescent children in her study.
    David Crary, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Apr. 2018

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