as a child
phrase
: when one was a child
I went there once as a child.
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Phillis Wheatley was kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston aboard a slave ship.
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Robin Follman,
Oc Register,
4 July 2026
Cynthia Brown first heard about the terror of 1898 as a child in the mid-nineteen-sixties.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
3 July 2026
John's best friend, however, is the eponymous talking teddy bear (voiced by the film's director, Seth MacFarlane), whom John wished to life as a child.
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Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 July 2026
After his own vision was corrected as a child, an encounter with a child his age in Cairo — living a starkly different life — sparked a lifelong mission to help others see.
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Ashoka,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
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Robin Follman,
Oc Register,
4 July 2026
Cynthia Brown first heard about the terror of 1898 as a child in the mid-nineteen-sixties.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
3 July 2026
John's best friend, however, is the eponymous talking teddy bear (voiced by the film's director, Seth MacFarlane), whom John wished to life as a child.
—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 July 2026
After his own vision was corrected as a child, an encounter with a child his age in Cairo — living a starkly different life — sparked a lifelong mission to help others see.
—
Ashoka,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for as a child
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“As a child.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20a%20child. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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