How to Use young adult in a Sentence

young adult

adjective
  • The answer in large part is young adult.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • This cheeky quote will gain a smile from a dad with young adult kids.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Mar. 2024
  • The cells came from the bone marrow of three healthy young adult donors.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
  • This cheeky quote will gain a smile from a parent with young adult kids.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 21 June 2026
  • The spokesman said the victim was a male who was in his late teens or a young adult.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Being a young adult in a new city can come with a lot of questions.
    — Kansas City Star, 4 May 2026
  • So, there’s no need to panic on behalf of your teen or young adult child.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 24 Nov. 2023
  • As a young adult, Brooks cycled through a dozen odd jobs to make ends meet.
    — Julia Terruso, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Learning a new skill at my age is not the same as learning it as a child or young adult.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • The new facility will have a place for young adult clients.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ferreira plays a young adult just termed out of the foster care system.
    — Graham Womack, Sacramento Bee, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Many of us discovered our love of reading through young adult books.
    — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2024
  • This is a guy who his entire young adult life has been running and fighting.
    — EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • At the end of the night, one of our young adult congregants approached me.
    — Debra Newman Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • One slammed door later and Lady — as a young adult — fills the frame.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Much of that series growth looks likely to come from young adult-skewing shows.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • With young adult themes of heartache and hope in an uncertain world, this is the right moment for this film.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Max has a goal to live independently as a young adult.
    — Alexa Stone updated March 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Prime Video has found its niche with young adult romance adaptations.
    — Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 10 June 2026
  • By March, crews found the mandible of an adult man, followed within days by the ribs of a young adult.
    — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026
  • When your kid heads off to college, there's a whole new world for the new young adult – and the parent – to traverse.
    — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
  • Not bad for someone who had never been outside of her tower prison her entire young adult life.
    — EW.com, 23 June 2025
  • Alexander grew up in Chicago and moved to the Dallas area as a young adult.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2025
  • Bans tend to impact kid lit authors first, which is why so many of my colleagues are children’s and young adult books.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Other parents didn’t expect to have so much involvement in their kids’ young adult lives.
    — Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Hall was well-acquainted with the food industry throughout his young adult life.
    — Mike Keckhaver), arkansasonline.com, 11 Jan. 2025
  • That means a young adult’s payments to friends or funds received for a job could be visible to the public.
    — Kimberly Palmer Of Nerdwallet, Quartz, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But, with my wife away and my young adult daughter locked down in California, my house would be dark.
    — Sally Susman, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Things that interested me as a child, as a teenager and as a young adult still interest me.
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The film is based on Green’s best-selling 2017 young adult novel of the same name.
    — Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2024

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