How to Use teens in a Sentence

teens

plural noun
  • And the cool teens are wearing those weird pants again.
    Aj Willingham, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • In my late teens, I got caught up in my first drug charge.
    Curbed, 5 Dec. 2022
  • This is why teens like to go to bed later and sleep in the next day.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The three were all described as thin Black males in their late teens.
    Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Three cars rolled by with teens dressed, she was told, in Crips blue.
    Lynnell Hancock, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • So, the six teens involved in the first year each received a $200 stipend for their work.
    Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 June 2022
  • Two of the teens’ charges had a hate crime enhancement.
    Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Make sure to check out our gift guides for teens, for mom, for dads, for kids and more.
    Lauren Matthews, Good Housekeeping, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The Eagles gave up 22 points a game last year and coach Stover would like to get that down to the low teens.
    Jimmy Lay, al, 30 July 2022
  • The 6-foot-7 Terry is projected in many mock drafts to go off the board in the late teens.
    oregonlive, 15 June 2022
  • When the victim entered the home after the teens did, his son's friend stabbed and shot him.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The teens were in a 2018 Dodge Ram pickup truck, said Trooper Cpl.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Lows will drop into the teens and 20s for much of the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic tonight.
    Jennifer Gray, CNN, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Northwest winds around 10 to 15 mph will keep it feeling more like the teens.
    Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Both teens were in 11th grade at Hoke County High School and were on the soccer team.
    PEOPLE.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Like many teens, Roodabeh Far spent much of her free time alone in her room.
    Jenna Ryu, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Or do adults just assume teens don't know what malls are?
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Of those killed, three have been teens and another nine have been in their 20s.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Even teen movie queen Molly Ringwald called it one of the best films about teens.
    Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Both teens are scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 11.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But then Garza announced that the two teens would be released and the charges against them dismissed.
    Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
  • This includes up to two adults and four teens (ages 13 to 17) who don’t need to be at the same residence.
    Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 22 May 2022
  • More than once when my kids were teens a call to the other parents revealed that none of us liked the idea.
    Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Some videos were in Dari, which the other teens couldn’t understand.
    Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Saturday morning the wind chills will fall to the teens from Texas to Georgia.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • There’s no question that anxiety is on the rise among teens and younger kids.
    Laura Newberrystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In the video, the two teens are seen surrounded by clouds of ash as flames tore through the building on Thursday.
    Gabriela Miranda, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2021
  • Alcorn said a group of teenage boys was at the restaurant on Friday night and the teens were in the bathroom around the same timeframe.
    Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2023
  • In 2020, firearms killed more children and teens than car accidents for the first time, a Post analysis revealed.
    Andrea Salcedo, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Those most affected by the increase were children and teens in the overweight and obese weight categories, and younger school-age children.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2023

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