Example sentences for: youngster

How can you use “youngster” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I had read about Halley's Comet first, I suspect, as a youngster; seeing the word in print, but not having much occasion to shout it aloud (the comet coming around only once every 75 years), I formed its pronunciation in my mind and there it stayed.

  • And what fun if a youngster misunderstands the custom just a little and imagines she will grow up to marry Winnie the Pooh.

  • She wondered what would happen if she could take one child from the city and place that youngster where she was now -- in the midst of this beauty and serenity.

  • Pans for director Sidney Lumet's remake of a 1980 John Cassavetes film about a tough moll whose heart gets melted by a youngster who falls into her charge: "Easily qualifies as the most tired, unexciting mob movie in recent history" (Godfrey Cheshire, Daily Variety ). Of Sharon Stone as the title character, played by Gena Rowlands in the original, Jack Mathews says: "It's not so much a bad performance as an unnecessary one.

  • As a youngster in The Bronx in the early 1930s, I would occasionally take my windfall of a few pennies to the local candy store and buy a strip of cockamamies , `comic-style cartoons in brilliant colors, each about an inch by an inch and a half, transferable to forearm or forehead by wetting,' preferably with saliva to make things agreeably messy.


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