Example sentences for: youth

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

  • I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.

  • Wrongly accused of being a lazy language, youth slag is, in fact, as complex and rhythmic as any dialect.

  • Book -- Werewolves in Their Youth , by Michael Chabon;

  • Is it just me, or do the non-labeling youth lack the courage of their convictions?

  • heavy (1) Slang from the HIPPIE and youth culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s for serious, important, or meaningful, e.g. a heavy date.


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