How to Use pubescent in a Sentence

pubescent

adjective

• Some of the children were pre-pubescent minors, the release said.
  — Jane Florance, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
• The graphic images showed a pre-pubescent girl laying on a bed with a pink shirt, exposed below the waist.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• While the college game was birthed in New Jersey, the state’s biggest program has regressed to look pubescent.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
• Some of the images reportedly were of pre-pubescent children.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 24 Feb. 2022
• Reynolds assaulted the pre-pubescent victim 15 to 50 times over several years.
  — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2022
• One uncertainty is whether pre-pubescent boys face the same risk of heart inflammation in response to the vaccine that has been seen in teen boys and young men.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• In another image, court documents show, a pre-pubescent boy was lying nude on a bed.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• But Gendron has not been only the mildly pubescent White male — still wet behind the ears — or younger adult with a deeply rooted hatred toward Blacks and the desire to kill.
  — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 27 May 2022
• Will’s declaration that the Mind Flayer is back is a cry for help that brings his friends back to his side, reunited as a taller and more visibly pubescent team.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 July 2019
• The trends helped normalize the sexualization of pubescent girls.
  — Jess Sims, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2021
• And at school, with pubescent boys cooped up for months at a time, slurs about homosexuality were the ones most often thrown at anyone who strayed very far from the strict confines of the norm.
  — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
• Porter had a cell phone, four hard drives plus a laptop with pornographic images of a pre-pubescent minor and another minor under 12, the FBI said.
  — Daniel I. Dorfman, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• If Carell can overcome that pubescent mustache, the underlying message is, any dream is within reach.
  — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 3 Feb. 2017
• Yet these are the repulsive characters — part of American Greeting Co.'s collection of rubber balls with hideous faces — that have taken the pre-pubescent set by storm.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2021
• At the time, a social worker, foster parents and therapist pigeonholed the child, known then as Christina, as a troubled, pubescent girl who acted out for attention.
  — Samantha Young, sacbee, 2 July 2018
• Helker pleaded guilty to one count of foreign distribution of child pornography involving an image of a pubescent boy and prepubescent girls.
  — Scott Wente, Twin Cities, 13 Mar. 2017
• Leno by his own admission was inspired by the Brits, but his adaptation has the potential to appeal to more than pubescent boys excited by rock stars almost flipping a family car.
  — Jeremy Hart, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2009
• In addition to the Iceland study, other research has shown that pre-pubescent kids have a significantly lower likelihood of getting sick.
  — Lois Parshley, Science, 10 Dec. 2020
• Hormone treatment is not recommended for pre-pubescent children.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• And yet all that feels like cold comfort during the two-plus hours of bland action, circuitous twists, creaky unfunniness, and insistent product placement that makes up the second outing for our pubescent Superman.
  — Charles Bramesco, Chron, 15 Mar. 2023
• Using a trail of clues that included Deyte’s smartwatch, leaked e-mails, and Rogers’s computer, teams of pubescent cyber-forensic investigators were tasked with determining the culprit.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• As for the least propitious time or place in which to publish a wildly sophisticated novel about a middle-aged man violating a pubescent girl, Eisenhower’s America figured high on the list.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021
• But behind those scenes of pubescent angst and hilarity is a cutting narrative about a girl caught between her mother’s Christianity and her father’s Judaism, who tries desperately to relate to God outside all of that.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Mar. 2023
• Harvested in the pubescent stage of the plant’s life, the leaves contain highly stimulating enzymatic properties that interact with dopamine and norepinephrine receptors in the brain to produce stimulant effects.
  — Dallas News, 10 Nov. 2022
• Saedi adroitly and humorously uses these universal pubescent ordeals to contextualize Iranian culture and the immigrant experience.
  — Jennifer Hubert Swan, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024