Young

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"Young" in a Sentence (44 examples)

The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.

The proliferation of Internet usage has given birth to a new generation of young people.

The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.

On May 18, a young Japanese couple was arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter.

He looks young. He cannot be older than I.

You are young. I, on the contrary, am very old.

You had better take into consideration that you are no longer young.

You're still too young to get a driver's license.

Your mother must have been beautiful when she was young.

You are young boys.

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a lamb is a young sheep

these picture books are for young readers

Come skydiving with us. Come on, you're only young once!

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!

"What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

At Columbia-Greene, staffers go for the most unadoptable animals to save them from euthanasia. The youngest, healthiest, cutest pets are waiting for you.

The factors related to increase in number of abscondings were younger age, psychiatric problems, multi-drug abuse and living alone.

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

The number of young children in the US who have died from opioid overdoses has increased significantly, according to a new study on accidental poisonings of children 5 and younger.

These concerns were shared by other SNP women who told the Guardian there was a chronic lack of support from the party, including for those with younger families.

the age of space travel is still young

a young business

[…] while the Fears of the People were young, they were encreas’d strangely by several odd Accidents […]

Look at that sky, life's begun / Nights are warm and the days are young

A team of Irish astronomers have captured an out-of-this-world image of one of the youngest stars known to scientists.

And thou, our Mother, twice two centuries young, Bend with bright shafts of truth thy bow fresh-strung.

How young is your dog?

Her grandmother turned 70 years young last month.

The young Mr. Chester must be in the wrong, and the old Mr. Chester must be in the right.

1922, E. Barrington, “The Mystery of Stella” in “The Ladies!” A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty, Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, pp. 40-41, […] Miss Hessy is as pretty a girl as eye can see, in her young twenties and a bit of a fortune to boot.

Ephraim would be in his young thirties.

[…] while this may appeal to older, better-off shoppers, vast numbers, especially those in their teens and young twenties, still want fast, cheap fashion.

Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.

My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.

The cynical world soon shattered my young dreams.

Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.

The lion caught a gnu to feed its young.

The lion's young are curious about the world around them.

There is a logic in this behavior: a mother will not come into breeding condition again unless her young is ready to be weaned or has died, so killing a baby may hasten […]

The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).

Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.

Shoshonitic magmatism younged southwards in the Superior Province, commensurate with the southwardly diachronous accretion of allochthonous subprovinces.

The existence of magmatic belts younging northward implies that slabs of Asian mantle subducted one after another under ranges north of the Himalayas.

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