What is "teen"

Usage examples of "teen".

For an advertiser, therefore, success can be measured by the amount of word of mouth generated within schools and other teen communities.

She was in her late teens, wearing a slinky silk dress that revealed an almost androgynous figure, all ribcage and stringy muscle.

Chapter Eigh teen Shelby paused only long enough to call Bob and tell him to get out to the swamp by her house.

Tucker Thompson, anticipating that his crowd would want to lodge at the Bali Hai, checked the place out and satisfied himself that the rooms were clean and the drinks honest, but then he discovered something that sent icicles right up his spine: the Bali Hai was sometimes overrun by hordes of groupies who wanted to be where the action was, and since many of them were delectable and still in their teens, he could foresee disaster.

In his teens and early twenties, he had been a night hound, a haunter of cocktail bars and clubs.

Malthus immediately wondered how someone as young as this mon could have become their lawgiver: he looked to be in no more than his late teens, and the last time Malthus heard, the lawgiver for this place was Nevin Scarface.

She was no glamour girl, but not hard to look at, and he was of a station beneath her in the scientific hierarchya mere corporal in Logistics, barely out of his teens, too low to even be up at the Point.

There were the usual people out enjoying the late August sun - mums with toddlers, a few joggers, a guy on a bench listening to his Walkman and a number of teens hanging out farther down the hill.

He suddenly realized that the orca, by its dorsal fin, size and, hell, demeanor, was no more than a teen, probably a young one.

A girl then, barely out of her teens, pure paisa like him, no native blood, able to trace her family all the way back to Spain.

Haguefort in her late teens to tend to the children of the recently widowed duke, Rosella had been enamored of Lord Stephen.

Stella grew evasive about her teens, or what had brought her to the carnival where Johnny had found her, but she talked freely about the work she had done.

The teener gang that had attacked him had even put chain bruises on his legs.

He stared into the faces of a woman, a teener, a young woman, a handsome middle-aged man, looking for something beside fear, and finding only fear and a mouse like instinctive urge to escape a trap, and a fear of fear that kept them quiet, afraid to express the sense of disaster that filled their imaginations.

A mixed gang of teener kids are holding him in the ruins near West Fifty-third Street.