How to Use teenager in a Sentence

teenager

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  • 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 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
  • This was all heady stuff for a teenager entering her sophomore year of high school.
    — SELF, 11 June 2024
  • The teenager, wearing a Trump T-shirt, allegedly hit Kathleen Tomasko in the stomach, knocking her to the floor and leaving her with hip pain.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The boater who was found dead was a teenager, according to The Press Democrat, which also cited authorities.
    — Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024

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