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A teenager.
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Grief; sorrow; trouble.
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Vexation; anger; hate.
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The numbers between thirteen and nineteen.
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The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
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The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
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She is in her teens.
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The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
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(temperature, rates) The range between 10 and 19.
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Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.
Examples of teens in a Sentence
The children were monitored by a few teens, who sat in one corner laughing and talking.
The teens entertained him, but he really wanted some more time to work on Jessi.
The temperature was in the high teens but as the sun began its ascent it felt far warmer.
A lanky boy in his late teens stood beside the bed.
Accustomed to the teens' all but shredding their clothes, she instinctively reached for the stain to feel if it was wet.
Tears forming, Jessi sank into her couch, eyes on the photo of her and the two teens she was supposed to be taking care of.
Jessi didn't have to look to know where Xander was; a look of awe crept into the faces of both teens.
The teens were ready when he reached the food court.
He wondered what Jonny threatened to do to the teens, if she failed to do his bidding.
She snatched her purse and strode to the door while the teens laughed.
Silently, he acknowledged that he was a fool to lower his guard around the teens and their cousin, to the point he recognized Ashley the first time he saw her but didn't check her mind.
While still in her teens, she made a lover of Alexius Shubin, a sergeant in the Semenovsky Guards, and after his banishment to Siberia, minus his tongue, by order of the empress Anne, consoled herself with a handsome young Cossack, Alexius Razumovski, who, there is good reason to believe, subsequently became her husband.
But, if his truculent character was thus early displayed, his abilities were no less conspicuous; and, though still in his teens, he became lecturer on the Humanities at Tournai, whence, after but a short stay, he returned to Paris, to take his degree of doctor of canon law, and become regent of the college of Navarre.
Hamilton was the early home of William Dean Howells, whose recollections of it are to be found in his A Boy's Town; his father's anti-slavery sentiments made it necessary for him to sell his printing office, where the son had learned to set type in his teens, and to remove to Dayton.
His private life was lax; he had at least two sons, for whom he purchased benefices before they had entered on their teens; and scandalous tales are told of the entertainments with which he enlivened his seclusion.
At present few persons beyond their teens would care to read it through, so unnatural and stilted is its language, so thin its material and so consciously mediated its sentiment.
In fiction, Olive Schreiner (Mrs CronwrightSchreiner) produced, while still in her teens, the Story of an African Farm, a work which gave great promise of original literary genius.
The queen of The Spain, Isabella, was a young girl still in her teens; the Spanish heir to the throne was her younger sister, the infanta marFernanda.
Tiny teens with their eyes all aglow Know their parents won't be home tonight.
A person is most likely to develop bulimia in their late teens to early 20s.
I have always enjoyed the performing arts and during my teens, I used to do some amateur dramatics.
May I recommend The Amber Spyglass, which has some hot scenes with underage teens making out. ' Coo er gosh.
As well as an excellent horseman he was a keen rugby player; he also started writing poetry in his teens.
There followed the inquisition and I had to confess to having known more about their subject in my teens than they did now.
Had a lovely lunch, even the big mac die hard teens enjoyed it!
To a based broker business home mortgage third of driving teens.
A crook's Paradise a key sales stage in of driving teens.
Two teens went on a killing spree at their high school.
So today's teens the dealer hides even includes a dejanews index all.
Many children will find that their eczema has cleared by the time they reach there mid teens.
They were all aged late teens or early 20s.
By the time I was in my mid teens I used to spend school holidays with her occasionally.
In his late teens he had fought in the trenches of the First World War.
By the time he entered his early teens, both his parents had died.
Director Kevin Bray has clearly aimed the movie at The Rock's core market of undemanding male teens.
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Four teens set up their tent in the woods and are subsequently attacked by flesh-eating zombies.
His dramatic pieces, The Lying Valet, adapted from Motteux's Novelty Lethe (1740), The Guardian, Linco's Travels (1767), Miss in her Teens (1747), Irish Widow, &c., and his alterations and adaptations of old plays, which together fill four volumes, evinced his knowledge of stage effect and his appreciation of lively dialogue and action; but he cannot be said to have added one new or original character to the drama.
Both had a history of recurrent chest infection dating from their teens.
I 'd done a bit of shoplifting when I was in my early teens, which I got cautioned for.
From his teens he suffered from a debilitating illness.
So today 's teens the dealer hides even includes a dejanews index all.
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Puffta is a national online magazine aimed at gay teens.
Director Kevin Bray has clearly aimed the movie at The Rock 's core market of undemanding male teens.
He was 54 years old at the time and was a widower with sons in their late teens and early twenties.
As the mom of four children, three of whom are teens and one who is a toddler, I can quickly say that I'm a different parent the fourth time around.
Adults and teens should enroll in a first aid and CPR class.
Older children and teens may want to help create a scrapbook of pictures or write a letter to their beloved sister or brother.
Gap has the advantage of offering Gap Kids brands for younger teens, and men's sizes for older teen boys.