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How to use the word childish in a Sentence?

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I became less naive and less childish. And maybe it has made me a little bit stronger. Because what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger, of course, only when you see this, you understand the value of life. And for me, this is 100%.

Yaryna Arieva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

BLM is more concerned with promoting extreme anti-police rhetoric than in improving conditions for black Americans, polling consistently shows that blacks bear the greatest burden of violent crime victimization. BLM’s childish tweets ignore the fact that the majority of black Americans appreciate the work of law enforcement and would actually like to see more policing, not less.

Jason Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So now when I cook with sage and smell it wafting through the house I remember my grandma so young, and those days with family( most are gone now) all through such childish and innocent eyes, so, is the sage dressing a good recipe ? Meh. Is it treasured ? Absolutely.

Amy Rafferty

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've never even heard of anything like that in high school, it's very childish. This was all orchestrated by Trey Kelly and company.

Susan Pain Opraseuth

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Playing the blame game is stupid and childish. Even if it is someone else’s fault, the blame game is wasted time, effort, and energy that takes you somewhere that is not going to get you anywhere.

Loren Weisman

added by lorenweisman
3 years ago

It was such an obvious, childish lie, I couldn't wrap my head around it, obviously I thought we must at least investigate the lake but my [ agency ] had a different view, which corresponded with the one of the [ Nornickel ] plant — that the spill did not spread further that the river.

Vasily Ryabinin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I wanted to wear a tiny pin to express solidarity, but the parade officials physically blocked me and stood in my way. They said I can't march with the rainbow, sixty-year-old men acting childish -- want to be tough guys who can't get past my pin. It's a shame. These are people making out the rules for no reason.

Joseph Borelli

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these as with my own soul; they became the sharers of my confidence.

Jan Smuts

added by acronimous
4 years ago

We're trying to remind the president how unwelcome he is in this country, donald Trump is childish, trivial, insulting. He embodies all of these things. This is an incredibly apt way to welcome him.

Leo Murray

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It has turned into a childish spectacle, i don't want to be there to lend dignity to it.

Justice Antonin Scalia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Donald Trump has said a number of things which are hurtful and he has said that they were childish in some respects and I think will be potentially problematic either in a primary or in a general election if he were to become the nominee.

Mitt Romney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Probably is a little childish, but you know what? This is a campaign.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'll let them tell you, it's something very childish that sixth graders could have talked about and it had no reason happening. If they want to tell you what happened, they can tell you what happened, but I told them I wouldn't say anything about it, so I'll keep it there.

Locker Room Fight Bowles

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There was an altercation in the locker room, it had nothing to do with football. It was something very childish. He (Smith) got cold-cocked, sucker punched, whatever you want to call it, in the jaw. He has a broken jaw, fractured jaw, it requires some surgery.

Locker Room Fight Bowles

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

Lao Tzu

added by JP03
8 years ago

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.

Christopher Marlowe

added by anonymous
9 years ago

We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

Jean Genet

added by anonymous
9 years ago

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Real men aren't afraid of childish accusations. (Quite the paradox eh?)

Craig Friebolin

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get

Batman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Homer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.

W. Somerset Maugham

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us.

Edith Ann

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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