How to Use teenager in a Sentence

teenager

noun
  • The pair met as teenagers in late 2013 and stayed in touch over the years.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Drone footage from the front of the boat shows the teenagers laughing and waving.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 May 2024
  • Massey, 36, was the mother of two teenagers, a son and a daughter.
    Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • Abel was born in Ethiopia and came to the United States as a teenager in 1999.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • But even as a teenager, Moreno wanted to pick the brain of the people around him.
    The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Some there are teenagers still in the state’s child welfare system.
    Jason Laughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The pre-teens and teenagers answered, and some asked to remain anonymous.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 8 Dec. 2023
  • At what age should a teenager start a skin care routine?
    Jenn Barthole, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
  • What if the governor donned a dress not as a teenager but as an adult, right now?
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • For three days in a row a teenager has been shot in the city of Milwaukee, police say.
    Journal Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The teenager was fully cleared to return late last month.
    Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Beth’s mother died in front of her when Beth was a teenager—and maybe, Beth thinks, because of her.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The younger children embraced her with warm hugs while a teenager stayed silent with arms crossed.
    Popular Science, 2 June 2020
  • The video, from Friday, May 26, shows the two Marines in the center of a group of 15 or more teenagers who are punching and kicking the two victims.
    Jordan Darling The Orange County Register (tns), al, 28 May 2023
  • One of the local teenagers, a girl named Lucy, has died by falling from a roof during a party.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 8 May 2024
  • The teenager stands in the middle of a hospital ward, his tank top covered in blood.
    Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Authorities said teenagers found the body off the side of a road, according to WMC.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Instead of lustful teenagers, the cast was meant to focus on preteens.
    Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In videos shared widely on social media, teenagers hopped fences and ran for their lives.
    Mary Claire Molloy, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • The teenager’s arrest comes in the midst of a nationwide swatting surge.
    Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2024
  • As a teenager, one stylist even let a piping hot pressing comb sear her scalp.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2023
  • His statement came in response to an assault on three adults by a groups of teenagers on Wednesday.
    Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 13 Sep. 2024
  • As a teenager, Ms. Scotto was sent to Milan for voice and piano lessons.
    Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The plaintiff in the suit, filed in the Eastern District of New York, was identified only as the parent of the teenager.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 30 July 2023
  • Gentileschi learned to paint as a teenager in her father’s studio in Rome.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The teenagers were on a macabre walking tour, peering through empty stores’ locked metal gates.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2023
  • As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The four teenagers attempted to claim self-defense because the victim punched first.
    Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Some companies will likely be granted exemptions, such as WhatsApp and YouTube, which teenagers may need to use for recreation, school work or other reasons.
    Geoff Colvin, Fortune Asia, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The governor’s rejection of his daughter is compounded when younger sister Nessarose (played as a teenager by Marissa Bode) comes along.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2024

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