How to Use childhood in a Sentence

childhood

noun
  • Both men had unhappy childhoods.
  • Many of us learn this bias in childhood.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
  • This day will mark the end of my childhood.
    — Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
  • What did their childhood kitchen look like?
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026
  • It’s been his life since childhood.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 June 2026
  • One of childhood's best dips is all grown up.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
  • What was your childhood like there?
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • That’s what childhood should be.
    — Mike Smith, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
  • In childhood, we’re taught that two wrongs don’t make a right.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There may have been a few childhood scraps along the way, though.
    — Otto Rabe, Cincinnati Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Kirke talked about how far this stage seemed from his childhood prospects.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Why does a certain smell pull you back to childhood?
    — Cheryl Russell, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2026
  • And there was a weighted-ness to it in my childhood.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Going through that on my own was a scary part of my childhood.
    — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Teach the kids how to make your favorite childhood treat.
    — Parents, 11 June 2026
  • Treating childhood fevers has long been a source of parental angst.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Today’s flats are a far cry from the stiff styles of my childhood.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The city of their childhood was idyllic.
    — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Who, after all, wants their childhood to end?
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Against a childhood that didn’t look like other kids’.
    — Kimberly McCreight, Time, 3 June 2026
  • Moss has heard this voice, and others like it, since childhood.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • His love of blues started in childhood.
    — Zak Spector, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • There was just something about my childhood.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • All the kids are kicked onto a stage at some point in their childhood.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • One bite of these soft, chewy cookies will take you back to your childhood.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Your first childhood crush saying no.
    — Big Think, 18 Mar. 2026
  • What does that word mean when you’ve been wounded, as a male, since childhood?
    — Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Bree has spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals.
    — Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • From childhood, we’re taught to seek it, work toward it, and achieve it at all costs.
    — John Vorwald, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Many of her recipes have ties to her childhood roots in Lagos.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026

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