preteen

Example Sentences

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Their preteen daughter, Suri, played in the front seat of the truck.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

When Eberle asked what a preteen needed a calendar for, he told her, “I want to keep track of when I’m here and when I’m at Dad’s.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

“I’m sorry about my ugly appearance,” a preteen Kaley said in a YouTube video played in court Thursday morning, urgently repeating, “I look so fat,” while panning the camera over her slender torso.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grown-ups going to think?” cries Piggy, the book’s preteen standard-bearer for logic and civilization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Well, sure, when he put it like that, I could see that I was never going to become a preteen real estate mogul if I wasted earnings by renting rather than buying.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen