childhood

[ˈtʃaɪldhʊd]

Definition:
1. The time of person's life when they are a child.
2. The state of a child between infancy and adolescence.

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Use 'childhood' in a sentence:

• 1. She had made their childhood so joyous and carefree.
• 2. Visiting Angkor was the fulfilment of a childhood dream.
• 3. Her childhood was spent travelling from place to place.
• 4. By his own account he had an unhappy childhood.
• 5. Teenagers lose their childhood simplicity and naturalness.
• 6. Her unhappy childhood left an indelible mark.
• 7. The book summoned up memories of my childhood.
• 8. He was remembering a story heard in childhood.
• 9. Very few of those interviewed spoke positively about their childhood.
• 10. Is there a cut-off point between childhood and adulthood?
• 11. He remembered their childhood meetings with nostalgia.
• 12. She knew that she had left childhood behind.
• 13. My memories of childhood are hazy and episodic.
• 14. Her childhood was spent shuttling between her mother and father.
• 15. Her childhood is recorded in the diaries of those years.
• 16. She had a very sheltered childhood.
• 17. He wore leg braces after he had polio in childhood.
• 18. She drew her inspiration from her childhood experiences.
• 19. She had had a rootless childhood moving from town to town.
• 20. Her difficult childhood spurred her on to succeed.
• 21. The place was overlaid with memories of his childhood.
• 22. She had a happy childhood.
• 23. Perry spent part of his childhood in Canada.
• 24. The writer attempts a recreation of the sights and sounds of his childhood.
• 25. I always associate the smell of baking with my childhood.
• 26. Memories of her childhood came flooding back.
• 27. The poverty of her childhood stands in total contrast to her life in Hollywood.
• 28. Love was totally absent from his childhood.
• 29. The writer uses her childhood as raw material for this novel.
• 30. She relates her childhood experiences in the first chapters.
• 31. She mourned for her lost childhood.
• 32. Her father's death impacted greatly on her childhood years.
• 33. Think further back into your childhood.
• 34. His problems are deeply rooted in his childhood experiences.
• 35. The smell of the sea took him back to his childhood.
• 36. The smell of the sea carried her back to her childhood.
• 37. The place reawakened childhood memories.
• 38. The story then jumps from her childhood in New York to her first visit to London.
• 39. It's strange how childhood impressions linger.
• 40. She wrote retrospectively about her childhood.
• 41. The article gave a distorted picture of his childhood.
• 42. The play is loosely based on his childhood in Russia.
• 43. She had a pretty tough childhood.
• 44. He spent his childhood in occupied Europe.
• 45. Adult behaviour is often patterned by childhood experiences.