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.