juvie

Example Sentences

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A troubled teen opts for church summer camp over a stretch in juvie in the inspirational 2021 musical romance “A Week Away.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2021

Creed begins in 1998, when Adonis Creed is an adolescent in juvie with a natural talent for taking on kids twice his size.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2015

Seventeen years later, when she returns to the Hamptons as Emily, the same canine bounds up to her as if she never got sent to juvie!

From The Guardian • May 25, 2012

I wonder if he has been to juvie before, but decide I don’t really care.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

“And if Lonna hears about this, you know he’ll end up in juvie detention,” Beatrice said gloomily, “until she finds a new military school. Probably someplace far-off, like Guam, where he can’t run away.”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen