pubescent

Example Sentences

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To the moody strains of Sheik’s alt-rock score, the vise of adolescence is captured in a story about pubescent youths rebelling against the warping will of adult hypocrisy and repression.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

The teenagers are the focus, but they're also pubescent versions of the Boomers watching at home, enabling parents to make the case to their kids, and themselves, that they used to be edgy.

From Salon • Jan. 19, 2023

All these form an enormous playground where monumental things happen at inopportune times, each song a zoetrope world built for consoling and commiserating with the pains of being pubescent.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2023

His high-pitched voice would rise until it gave a pubescent crack, then he would return to normal as if all the air was out of the balloon.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2021

“What sort of flying motorcars do you have?” asked a pubescent boy named Horace, who wore a dark suit that made him look like an apprentice undertaker.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs