JUVENILE in a Sentence
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23 example sentences for JUVENILE, such as:
1. He is an expert in juvenile delinquency.
2. We can curb juvenile delinquency by education.
3. The boy's case was adjudged in the juvenile court.
4. He was shipped off to a juvenile detention center.
5. There is a high rate of juvenile delinquency in this area.
2. We can curb juvenile delinquency by education.
3. The boy's case was adjudged in the juvenile court.
4. He was shipped off to a juvenile detention center.
5. There is a high rate of juvenile delinquency in this area.
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Meanings and Examples of JUVENILE
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juvenile
n. a young person, not fully developed
a. displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity
Classic Sentence:
1 Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.
2 He crossed a small "branch" two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit.
3 He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.
4 He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man.
5 That blood-coloured figure was a sublimation of all the horrid dreams which had afflicted the juvenile spirit since imagination began.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
6 Eustacia's voice had sounded somewhat more juvenile and fluty than Charley's.
7 The only person who offered enough to make it worth her while to try juvenile literature was a worthy gentleman who felt it his mission to convert all the world to his particular belief.
8 The children went to him like bees to a honeypot, and establishing themselves on each knee, proceeded to captivate him by rifling his pockets, pulling his beard, and investigating his watch, with juvenile audacity.
9 There were four other stunts: one Jewish, one Irish, one juvenile, and Nat Hicks's parody of Mark Antony's funeral oration.
10 But, in a moment of so many serious and important duties, this single act of juvenile fortitude did not attract the general notice and commendation it would have received under milder auspices.
11 He would not have risked more if he had said twenty thousand; but a certain juvenile modesty restrained him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
Context Highlight In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
12 He fancied himself a burden to the society, forgetting in his perfectly juvenile good faith that he had fed this society for a month; and he set his mind actively to work.
13 I know that my juvenile experiences went for little or nothing then; and that life was more like a great fairy story, which I was just about to begin to read, than anything else.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
14 She hoped that the wise elders might be so tolerant as to listen to her suggestions about changing the shelving of the juveniles.
Example Sentence:
1 There is a high rate of juvenile delinquency in this area.
2 The boy's case was adjudged in the juvenile court.
3 He was shipped off to a juvenile detention center.
4 We can curb juvenile delinquency by education.
5 He is an expert in juvenile delinquency.
6 She wasn't sent to the juvenile court; instead she was cautioned.
7 Before being taken to the execution chamber he acknowledged that he deserved punishment, but he said it was unfair that he was paying the ultimate price while his co-defendant, his girlfriend, who was charged as a juvenile, had the chance of a normal life.
8 You know, this is sort of what I call a juvenile approach to a serious problem," the Democrat said.
9 Your tirade is juvenile, hypocritical, and dare I say, unprofessional.