juvenile

Example Sentences

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Shoals of juvenile salmon start their journey from the Itchen to the sea each spring.

From BBC

Within months or about a year, juveniles separated from adults and formed groups with others their age.

From Science Daily

Mark Davis was just 13 years old when he perished in a juvenile detention facility for Black boys in the eastern US state of Maryland some 140 years ago.

From Barron's

Charlie suggested to the local priest the idea of using the parish church's juvenile sodality - a religious group for young parishioners - as the basis for a football league.

From BBC

If only he’d caught half the heat as Wasserman, he might have retreated long enough to spare us from his juvenile X posts or his next monstrosity of a car design.

From Los Angeles Times