VERB
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become adolescent; pass through adolescence
The children are beginning to adolesce around the age of 12
How To Use adolesce In A Sentence
- During adolescence , boys and girls will take on secondary sexual characteristics.
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- This isn't helped a great deal by the characterisation of Lady Teazle: rather than manipulative coquettishness we get a slightly nervous adolescent.
- My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.
- Adolescence causes the four girls to understand their apartness and question their identities.
- The conceptus, like the infant, the child, and the adolescent, is a being who is in the process of unfolding its potential; that is, the potential to grow and develop itself but not to change what it is.
- Objective To study the event-related potential N400 character of semantic matching of sentence-ending words in childhood and adolescent schizophrenia.
- The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
- Life is more uncertain, so the task of launching an adolescent into the world has become more complicated.
- To answer the 300-odd posers on the questionnaire without then being persuaded to sign up for the religion was an essential rite-of-passage for any spotty adolescent struggling to find their own voice.