In a sentence
Six example sentences with adolescence, each labelled with its topic.
Researchers found that risk taking peaks during adolescence, when the brain's reward system matures faster than its brakes.
Psychology
Pediatricians track growth charts closely through adolescence, since a sudden spurt can strain knees and ankles in athletes.
Medicine
The film follows one awkward summer of adolescence, ending as the narrator packs for college and his voice deepens.
Movies
Coming-of-age novels linger in adolescence because that is when characters first decide who they refuse to become.
Literature
Her early albums are documents of adolescence, full of bedroom recordings and lyrics scribbled between classes.
Music
For most of history adolescence was barely recognised, and a farm boy of fourteen worked beside grown men.
History
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