Example sentences for: youngster

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • As words go, Pecksniffian is a youngster.

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

  • ... and finally the righteously indigiant one about an ill-mannered youngster at the Spanish court:


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