How to Use as a child in a Sentence
as a child
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Hung was born in Hong Kong and moved to the United States as a child.
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Lou Ponsi,
Oc Register,
29 June 2026
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Wallace was born in England and moved with her family to Australia as a child.
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Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
30 June 2026
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Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston aboard a slave ship.
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Robin Follman,
Oc Register,
4 July 2026
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Cynthia Brown first heard about the terror of 1898 as a child in the mid-nineteen-sixties.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
3 July 2026
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After his own vision was corrected as a child, an encounter with a child his age in Cairo — living a starkly different life — sparked a lifelong mission to help others see.
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Ashoka,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
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John's best friend, however, is the eponymous talking teddy bear (voiced by the film's director, Seth MacFarlane), whom John wished to life as a child.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 July 2026
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