How to Use puberty in a Sentence

puberty

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  • He reached puberty later than most of his classmates.
  • And the best way to think about that is again, puberty.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 25 June 2023
  • The timing of puberty plays a pivotal role in when a girl reaches their full adult height.
    — Maria Carter, Parents, 5 July 2023
  • Or the fact that all three of her children with Donald Trump reached puberty inside its walls.
    — Curbed, 12 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • The pair later went back and forth over Hutchinson’s stance on puberty blockers.
    — Brittany Bernstein, National Review, 3 May 2023
  • Willow is trans, and had been on puberty blockers since 2021.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The movie follows an 11-year-old girl who moves to a new town, struggles with puberty and leans on her mother for support.
    — Ilana Frost, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • She was put on puberty blockers, and then quickly switched to testosterone.
    — Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 27 July 2023
  • The feedback comes at a time when many states are banning hormone treatment and puberty blockers for youth.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 28 Nov. 2023
  • When Gallo was 12, doctors put them on testosterone, forcing them to go through puberty as a boy.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
  • And what happens to a young girl turned into an icon before even hitting puberty?
    — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Pitched somewhere between a coming-of-age drama and a body horror movie, the film tells the story of a 12-year-old who becomes the first among her friends to reach puberty.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Oct. 2023
  • When puberty hits, that thing's really going to kick in.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The suit is a good option for a range of body types, including those going through puberty and changing quickly.
    — Isabella Ubaldi, Health, 24 May 2023
  • Some boys may start puberty a year or two later than average, as well.
    — Maria Carter, Parents, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Most states in the U.S. require parental consent for puberty blockers, which can begin as early as age 8.
    — Patrick Hauf, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2023
  • As is the case for many young women, going through puberty meant I was confronted with a changing body that didn’t always feel like my own.
    — Hannah Baxter, Allure, 7 July 2023
  • So for Emile, the emergence of claws in his fingers and hair all over his back is a source only of embarrassment and shame at first, like the symptoms of a second puberty.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023
  • The book's straightforward account of puberty felt radical, and Harry breezed through the whole book in one sitting.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • How much research is there into the effects of puberty blockers and hormones treatments of people in this age group.
    — CBS News, 23 July 2023
  • The Netflix movie is a time machine to my own bat mitzvah complete with friendship drama, puberty woes, and first crushes.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 30 Aug. 2023
  • This therapy has a long history of use in medicine to help people with early puberty.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Health, 2 May 2023
  • However, the text of the bill does not specify whether a child needs to be on puberty blockers or have undergone surgery to be affirmed by their parents.
    — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The shortest amount of time that a parent said their child waited between their first appointment at the center and when their child started a puberty blocker was about six months.
    — Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Eu says that the film is both a metaphor for issues of female identity and the arrival of puberty and also a body horror entertainer.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 8 May 2023
  • During this month, Muslim people who have reached puberty will fast from sunrise to sunset.
    — Jordan Green, Detroit Free Press, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The quote was in a section in which Caroline described one root of her concern: her own experiences with puberty.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But as the young men went through puberty, their responses to Way’s questions drastically changed.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2023
  • This shift in melatonin during puberty lasts into our 20s.
    — Beth Ann Malow, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023

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