Example sentences for: youths

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

  • It was originally used by the pachucos (1940s youths) in the jargon they developed in the 1930s.

  • No more medieval costume dramas or Spartan youths flirting in freeze frame.

  • Also, for the first two years of the Depression, the Roosevelt administration essentially ignored the needs of the youths it had turned out of work, except in the effort of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which was aimed at men in their late teens and early twenties.

  • What did these unwanted youths do?

  • Keillor, by incorporating the names of the three youths in the fiery furnace into his blessing, is merely following in the footsteps of some of his forebears in esotericism, the Copts of early Christian Egypt, who often invoked Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego alongside such fantasy figures as Thoulal, Moulal, and Boulal in their magical charms.


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