How to Use teenage in a Sentence

teenage

adjective
  • As 2 Live Crew blared from the speakers, the teenage Rodgers couldn’t help but dance.
    C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • As Cassie adjusts to the new terms of her life, Ezekiel hunts for three teenage girls in the city.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2024
  • On May 28, a teenage boy found Anna’s body in a ravine.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • This means he is forced to live with her and their teenage daughter for 30 days.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Breakthrough went to teenage British hip hop duo, A1 x J1.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Yet nothing quite matched those early teenage drives in the GTI.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Nov. 2022
  • O’Connor’s teenage son Shane died by suicide last year.
    Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
  • Ma Cho, 48, lived with her teenage son in the southeastern state of Karen before the coup.
    Aung Naing Soe, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2022
  • John and Lisa are concerned that their teenage son, Jack, doesn’t want to go to college.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Let's get started on that Christmas list — keep scrolling for the best gifts for teenage girls.
    Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The mother of Ray’s teenage son died from cancer last month and Ray wants to take custody.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Who would've thought that a teenage vampire wasn't the fix that Louis and Lestat needed?
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • When Kim Young-soo gets out of jail and starts stalking teenage girls again, Tae-sung is able to track him down.
    Kayti Burt, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • There is no cure, and many children don’t survive past their teenage years.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2023
  • In the future, Charles dies and is sent back to 1987 to help his teenage self navigate a better life.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Her teenage kid, Sky (Elsie Fisher), is also in town with her.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • There’s no word yet on casting for the teenage version of the character.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2024
  • This set is a great gift for a teenage girl who’s just starting to get into makeup.
    Malia Griggs, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Not far behind Brady is his teenage son, who stands between the two and has been closing in on his dad's height over the last year.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The project pokes fun at all parties while rewriting the codes of teenage romance for the 21st century.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
  • His teenage daughter ran away to avoid the court’s order and is still a missing person.
    Hannah Dreyfus, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Politics on the app in 2020 was largely the domain of pranksters and teenage pundits.
    David Ingram, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The story of a boy born in poverty to a teenage single mother in Appalachia.
    Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The jetpack flier is Sophie (Chloe Coleman), a teenage spy with hair like a tent of frizz.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 July 2024
  • Jenny was a teenage girl who was home alone after school and found murdered.
    Risa Sarachan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Vicks VapoRub), raising a (smelly) teenage boy and being broke.
    Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Misty and Dan Ellis arrived at the airport for check-in at 3 a.m. with their teenage children.
    Jenna Russell, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Only Jules is allowed to have any fun at all, but even she is confined to angsty teenage anger.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • Most mothers probably feel the same way about their teenage sons.
    The Indianapolis Star, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The next day, the other five teenage suspects surrendered to police while they were also accompanied by their parents, Evers said.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024

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