Sentence examples for a troubled kid from inspiring English sources

But he had to let the young man go about a year ago, he said, mostly because he was "a troubled kid" who used to sleep on the job.

I was trying to get into the head of a troubled kid.

It may help to tell a troubled kid that is OK to get additional support.

Mr. Rattray said he was a troubled kid living in squalor in an apartment with no door.

He was a charming infantryman with a slicing wit, a troubled kid for whom college didn't work.

Louie starts the picture a troubled kid, discovering his running skills while evading the cops at top speed.

Putting the reader inside the head of a similarly troubled kid in a 300-plus-page novel is a much more difficult task.

It's not too much of a stretch to imagine a deeply troubled kid, armed with his parents' gun, turning to anonymous enablers to solicit a final, fatal approval.

"He was a really troubled kid and he wanted to be tougher and bigger than the other kids," she said.

By the time he turned six in 1934, he was already a relatively troubled kid.

With regard to adapting the characters from the book to film, Ron Clements mentioned that the Jim Hawkins in the book is a "a very smart, very capable kid", but they wanted to make Jim start out as "a little troubled kid" who "doesn't really know who he is" while retaining the aforementioned characteristics from the original character.