How to Use preteen in a Sentence

preteen

1 of 2 noun

• The preteen and Gomez, both of Fort Worth, each face a murder charge.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• Home seems to be the dumping ground for all of our preteen's school angst.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• The girl, whom The Post is not identifying, was a preteen at the time.
  — Carolyn Van Houten, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• Early in the new trailer, the 57-year-old Lemercier is seen as the preteen Dieu.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2021
• The preteen and his older brother went to a friend's house to get in some hangout time.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• The oldest Gen Zers are working and have mortgages, the youngest are preteens.
  — Phil Lempert, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• When Narayan was a preteen, her school put on a production of The Wizard of Oz.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2021
• The bones belong to an adult male, a preteen and an infant, according to the DNR.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 29 June 2021
• One preteen's arm was the size of a 4.5 month old baby, according to ABC.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 20 Nov. 2021
• Podcast with Amy Jo Martin where the preteen dished on the one lesson her dad has to learn over and over.
  — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 16 June 2021
• Henry was born and raised there, while Tania moved there from London as a preteen.
  — Daniel Oyefusi, baltimoresun.com, 10 May 2021
• The preteen pouted her lips for the camera as her party group did the same behind her.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
• In one passage near the end of the book, Frances watches Paul stare lustfully at a group of preteen girls.
  — Ella Fox-Martens, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2022
• These are our top gear picks for camping with kids — from infants to preteens.
  — Mandy Harris, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
• Bryan Hamilton was abused and given drugs as a preteen.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
• That a tough-guy closer is coming in to a song preteen girls love is amusing.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
• The preteen smiled as the wildlife enthusiast draped the writhing, 10-foot snake around her shoulders.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 20 June 2021
• Max, as a preteen, flubbed his first foray in e-commerce.
  — Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• As a preteen, Ryan hung out in chat rooms and learned how to use a video camera, according to a 2007 profile of her in The Times.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• This set is the perfect gift for a preteen or teen — period.
  — Karla Pope, Woman's Day, 25 Aug. 2022
• As the author puts it, both daughters - Corinne, in her 20s, and Anelise, a preteen - agree that Dad gets on their motherf---ing nerves.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 15 June 2021
• Their children range in age from preteen to 20-something.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2021
• Skateboarding is new to the Olympics this year – and even a preteen competitor has medaled.
  — Pamela Falk, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2021
• Those officers found the preteen girl who had been hit while trying to cross the road on foot, Smiley said.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2022
• On her screen, a preteen with a buzz cut and an oversize dress shirt was belting out an Alicia Keys song.
  — Mark Bergen, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2022
• Aretha was a preteen at the time and never publicly revealed who Clarence’s father was.
  — Emy Lacroix, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• Wie West has been putting that into practice for years, ever since her preteen and teen days.
  — Elizabeth Millard, C.p.t., SELF, 20 June 2022
• Lewis and David first met as preteens in a childhood sports camp, Lewis said in a 2023 interview with the Spectator.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• It was supposed to be a fun Valentine’s Day weekend sleepover among teen and preteen girls.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
• The two posed together on a boulder and then later, Delilah posed solo as the preteen took in her trip to paradise.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023

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preteen

2 of 2 adjective

• There is a range of ages, though most of the artists are in their preteen years.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• His big break came in the late aughts when a then preteen Justin Bieber hit the scene.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 Aug. 2023
• The person went on to talk about life with a preteen girl.
  — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 13 Feb. 2024
• The preteen years can be challenging in more ways than one, but picking up the best gift for a 10-year-old in your life doesn’t have to be.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Bsn, Parents, 15 Nov. 2023
• Her mind games put a new spin on preteen horror stories.
  — Jill Pellettieri, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• In 2014, two preteen girls lured a classmate into the woods on the pretense of everyday fun, and killed her.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2020
• The do-gooder shtick may explain his wide appeal to preteen boys and their parents alike.
  — Dan Hyman, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Today, many of her first preteen readers now have Margarets of their own.
  — Kristen Page-Kirby, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023
• Angelina was a member of the preteen team, but there were also older teenagers and girls as young as 4 who were there to compete.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2017
• What would Del Toro-lite be like when adapting a hair-raising favorite from the glut of preteen horror series out there?
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Peri and her preteen daughter are stuck in traffic on their way to a soiree when a thief reaches into their car and runs off with Peri’s handbag.
  — Agnes Torres Al-Shibibi, The Seattle Times, 24 Dec. 2017
• Connell said his brother leaves a wife, Melissa Ann Feis, and their preteen daughter.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 16 Feb. 2018
• Playing and watching team sports were the twin pillars of his preteen existence, and both pursuits were snatched away from him a matter of days.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 19 May 2020
• God Bless my dad, who braved a snowstorm that night to take me, armed with my brand new Kodak 110 camera (and plenty of flash bulbs!) to sit in a crowd of screaming preteen girls that night.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• But this one involves abandoning your preteen children in a scary forest alone at night.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• However, the company currently has no plans to open Horizon Worlds to the preteen crowd.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
• In Florida, a Guatemalan woman fought to get her preteen daughter from a state foster program in which the girl had been living for nearly five years.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• When Joie Manda was 12 years old, Mongoose bicycles were all the rage among his preteen friends in Brooklyn -- for everyone but him.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2018
• Disturbing footage shows an Arizona man attempting to snatch a preteen girl who was walking to school last week, police said.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
• On a recent Wednesday evening, as Pace was driving his van through Independence Square, a herd of preteen boys on skateboards descended on the van, phones at the ready.
  — Sarah Gish, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Subscribers in their 60s, families with preteen children and people of all ethnicities are now in the mix.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 July 2017
• Her family paid a smuggler to get her and her preteen daughter from Honduras to Mexico.
  — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 12 Feb. 2020
• For Ryan Rivera, that moment is being among a group of preteen boys who set fire to a trash can near their middle school’s atrium, a childish mistake that cast him into the school-to-prison pipeline.
  — Julia Craven, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• David does his best to hide his anguish from the kids, celebrating preteen Kian’s birthday with a cake and the gift of a bunny, as if everything will proceed as normal.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
• But then there are images, like a preteen death stare from the passenger seat or a backyard haircut, that are emblematic of what any mother sees.
  — Nadine Zylberberg, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2023
• Ray is also a soulful, loyal guy who cares lovingly for his preteen daughter and his sick brother.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• In the book — spoiler alert — things go badly for the preteen boys, classmates from an English boarding school who become stranded on an island without adults.
  — Daniel Victor, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• Like the time their sister Irma bought candy with the money set aside to pay the family’s bills, and a preteen Molina went to the liquor store and haggled the money back, save for the cost of the two candies Irma had eaten.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
• But my preteen son and daughter don't really remember that time.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2019
• Over the last 50-plus years, the legendary author has built a YA empire, charming millions of teen and preteen readers with her frank, endlessly readable novels.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024