adolescent

01. When a child becomes an [adolescent], his body changes in many ways.

02. When I was an [adolescent], I questioned everything in my life.

03. During [adolescence], teenagers often prefer the company of their peers to that of their family.

04. In [adolescence], a boy's voice changes, becoming much lower over a period of a few months.

05. He didn't get in any trouble as an [adolescent] because he was so busy playing sports.

06. The guy is over 30, but he has kind of an [adolescent] sense of humor.

07. A group of [adolescents] were hanging around the park, laughing and playing frisbee.

08. John Ciardi once said that one doesn't have to suffer to be a poet; [adolescence] is enough suffering for anyone.

09. Patricia Meyer Spacks once suggested that an artist is like an [adolescent]: a dreamer and a revolutionary.

10. Earl Wilson once joked that snow and [adolescence] are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

11. Someone once remarked that [adolescence] is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

12. Studies show that about 7 percent of American [adolescents] may be addicted to gambling.

13. Someone once joked that [adolescence] is the period when children are certain they will never be as stupid as their parents.

14. Recent research shows that children born to [adolescent] mothers are more likely to be poor, and to receive inadequate healthcare and education.

15. There were a group of [adolescents] standing outside the arena, smoking and yelling at passersby.

16. Male elephants are driven from their herd by the dominant females when they reach [adolescence].