TEENS in a Sentence

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For TEENS, below is one of 16 sentences:
I believe that book was published in dual editions for adult and teen readers; British publishers do that sort of thing a lot.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEENS
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teens
 n.  the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
 n.  all the numbers that end in -teen
Classic Sentence:
1  Edna was a little miss, just merging into her teens; and the realization that she herself was nothing, nothing, nothing to the engaged young man was a bitter affliction to her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XV
3  There was a Miss Mayblunt, no longer in her teens, who looked at the world through lorgnettes and with the keenest interest.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
4  There were hardened criminals and innocent men too poor to give bail; old men, and boys literally not yet in their teens.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
5  "I don't call myself a child, and I'm not in my teens yet," observed Amy.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FIVE
6  I was a boy in my teens at the time of my father's death and had never seen the Hall, for he lived in a little cottage on the South Coast.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
Example Sentence:
1  I also volunteered with the Boy Scout troop that I had been affiliated with while I was in my teens.
2  I have never lost the weight I put on in my teens.
3  Both my daughters are in their teens.
4  He didn't want to share a room with his brother once he reached his teens.
5  He was a rebel in his teens but he's a respectable citizen these days.
6  A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties.
7  She went through an identity crisis in her teens.
8  Her spirit and charm is going to be a great lesson to all young women and teens
9  She has four boys and all of them are either teens or in puberty stage.
10  I believe that book was published in dual editions for adult and teen readers; British publishers do that sort of thing a lot.