How to Use puberty in a Sentence

puberty

noun
  • He reached puberty later than most of his classmates.
  • How to help girls stay in sports through puberty.
    — Kris Ann Valdez, Parents, 19 Feb. 2026
  • They are made of plants, so how would puberty happen to them?
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2020
  • On top of all that, girls are going through puberty at younger ages.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Some may say that the awkward milestones of puberty are best left in the past.
    — Sara Aridi, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Learning this craft is a rite of passage when girls reach puberty.
    — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Early-onset puberty can cause rapid growth at first, then slow down.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 1 Nov. 2025
  • My dad rolled it on every morning, and since puberty, that's been cool with me, too.
    — Clay Skipper, GQ, 1 May 2017
  • That year passed and, going through puberty yet again, testosterone changed my body and mind.
    — Lara Americo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The timing of puberty plays a pivotal role in when a girl reaches their full adult height.
    — Maria Carter, Parents, 5 July 2023
  • The boys and girls were divided into two groups to learn about puberty.
    — New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • This isn't the first study to find earlier onset of puberty in boys.
    — Minali Nigam, CNN, 22 July 2019
  • When a person is past the start of puberty, care may include hormones.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
  • All things considered, outer space is not the best place to hit puberty.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Maybe her kid wasn’t trans; maybe her kid was just dealing with the regular angst of puberty.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • What could be more painful than reliving the hellish torment of puberty?
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2021
  • Kids wanted to see their idols up close, and yell at them, and rocket themselves through puberty.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 4 Aug. 2017
  • The word alone — puberty — conjures the need to stockpile zit cream and blare grunge music.
    — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
  • The male body, which has been through male puberty, still retains its advantage; that doesn’t go away.
    — Fox News, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Young attributes the shift to puberty happening a lot sooner for kids than in the past.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Dec. 2019
  • At the same time, this condition can affect men of any age, starting at the end of puberty.
    — Dr. Manny Alvarez, Fox News, 30 June 2017
  • At the same time, adolescence itself has changed as the age of puberty has fallen.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The marks appear when there is rapid stretching of the skin, like in pregnancy and puberty.
    — Jessica Cruel, SELF, 12 Jan. 2018
  • To kick-start puberty and calm the haters, Ritchson threw himself into the gym.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But under the new law, Brooke won't be able to get puberty-blocking hormones.
    — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 21 July 2021
  • This is happening against the backdrop of the falling age of puberty.
    — Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Wet dreams happen to boys during puberty — and some girls — when testosterone starts to be produced in the body.
    — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 1 Apr. 2019
  • Her singing hadn’t yet gone through the puberty of playing Etta James.
    — New York Times, 25 July 2022
  • The pair later went back and forth over Hutchinson’s stance on puberty blockers.
    — Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 3 May 2023
  • Joey, a boy soprano and the star of his choir, hits puberty just before the big contest the choir needs to win to stay alive.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020

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