underage
adjective
un·der·age ˌən-dər-ˈāj 
1
: of less than mature or legal age
2
: done by or involving underage persons
underage drinking
Examples of underage in a Sentence
They were not allowed into the club because they were underage.
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Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 Police said one adult and two underage children were arrested and other people were kicked out of the park. —Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 Australia’s ban still requires social media platforms to use their own age assurance technology to prevent underage users from creating accounts and to remove existing underage users from the platforms. —Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 16 Apr. 2026 There’s no need for a friend of a dental hygienist to stay in the room with a sedated underage female patient in a world that has total respect for women. —Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for underage
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Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026 Police said one adult and two underage children were arrested and other people were kicked out of the park. —Alexandra Simon, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 Australia’s ban still requires social media platforms to use their own age assurance technology to prevent underage users from creating accounts and to remove existing underage users from the platforms. —Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 16 Apr. 2026 There’s no need for a friend of a dental hygienist to stay in the room with a sedated underage female patient in a world that has total respect for women. —Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for underage
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underage
adjective
un·der·age ˌən-də-ˈrāj
: of less than mature or legal age
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