How to Use underage in a Sentence

underage

adjective
  • They were not allowed into the club because they were underage.
  • All the girls on the boat were underage.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 17 June 2026
  • All the girls on the boat were underage.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 June 2026
  • Most people in that camp knew that a lot of these girls were underage.
    — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • This is the most common case of underage fraud.
    — Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Three of the women were underage at the time of the alleged crime.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The underage weapon charge was punishable by up to nine months in jail.
    — Scott Bauer, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The aides said many calls appeared to come from underage people.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • All of the suspects are underage, so their names remain sealed.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • That hookup turns out to be the new-in-town (and notably underage) Jules.
    — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Some of their victims were underage.
    — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Not when Kid Rock has lyrics about liking underage girls.
    — Prince J. Grimes, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
  • But knowing full well that he's been accused of all these awful things with underage girls.
    — CBS News, 19 Oct. 2022
  • At issue are the lives of the unborn, parental rights, and the welfare of underage girls.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • In many cases, those wives were often underage.
    — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • For those not so in tune with the underage stars, his emergence appears to have come in recent months.
    — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • Police said a total of 66 underage kids were at the home.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Ellefson shared a screenshot of a post written by the fan alleged to be underage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • Now, the platform has been used by people hoping to win big dowries by selling an underage girl.
    — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Well…don’t sleep with underage people?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Some of those women were underage at the time the comic contacted them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But after about a year, his mother prevailed on the Marines to send her underage boy home.
    — Charles V. Bagli, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Officers walked to the back of the house and found four underage adults around a fire pit with alcohol in plain view.
    — cleveland, 29 May 2020
  • Though the sites may have a legal age, Paul says underage kids circumvent those with ease.
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 5 Dec. 2023
  • And for underage children and adults who don’t imbibe, a pineapple-lime soda hits the spot.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The two are believed to have victimized dozens of underage girls and women.
    — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Across the region, the pandemic is driving a rise of underage wives.
    — Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2021
  • No Haitians have been convicted of raping underage girls in, what, two whole weeks now.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
  • There can only be one chaperone for every five underage guests.
    — Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2025
  • In that case, each of the eight men was also charged with failure to comply with underage alcohol laws.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021

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