How to Use the young in a Sentence

the young

noun
  • The neighbor said the young man then walked out of the house.
    Malachy Browne, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Fold the picture in and Taylor and the young man are kissing.
    CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
  • If youth is wasted on the young, then height is wasted on the young and tall.
    Thessaly La Force, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The mood turns sober when the young elephant stumbles out of the truck, into the boma.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 10 June 2024
  • The defensive anchors on the field, and on the sideline, and the young guys looking to break out.
    Irie Harris, cleveland, 12 July 2023
  • Then, the young hummingbirds set out on the journey alone.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2024
  • As a result, the young cast was able to learn from his example.
    Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2023
  • At the start of the clip, the young children can be seen waving to a camera, before one boy runs and jumps over it.
    Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 2 June 2024
  • Two of the young soloists debuting at the festival could be stars in the making.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024
  • Seong-jin Cho, the young Korean pianist, played a recital in Carnegie Hall.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 May 2024
  • In so swiftly earning the top ranking, the young chef has pulled off a notable feat.
    Tara Patel, Fortune Europe, 19 Mar. 2024
  • And both Frances and the young man do come close to some kind of breakthrough, some revelation.
    Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In 2004, he was inspired to form the Ever Forward Club as a safe haven for the young men in his class to talk about their struggles.
    Katie Dupere, Men's Health, 15 Apr. 2023
  • For all the focus on middle-aged malaise, some of the most heartening footage is of the young, diverse crowd that flock to the front row of these shows.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 18 July 2024
  • The immense losses weighed heavily on the young John Paul II.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Bazaar became a focal point for the young and the beautiful and those who wanted to rub shoulders with them.
    By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • That’s not to suggest the young players don’t respect their elders.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • In the years that followed, the young actress continued appearing on the big screen throughout the 2000s.
    Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Finner said the shooter entered the church with the young boy but did not describe their relationship.
    TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward – the toughest and most violent in the prison.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The number of offspring were cut in half, and many of the young of parents that were exposed to fear were less healthy than their non-traumatized peers.
    Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
  • All of this concentrated the mind of the young American woman.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024
  • These restrictions hit the young and the weak of Gaza particularly hard.
    Maha Nassar, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Acting honors went to the young Battsooj Uurtsaikh and the mature Parwin Rajabi.
    John Bleasdale, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But the young woman refuses this fate and endeavors to find an escape route.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Embarking on an odyssey, the young man must overcome a series of obstacles, from the plight of the desert to the horrors of detention centers in Libya and the dangers of the sea.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
  • For the young entrepreneur, finally getting her snack on store shelves across the country was a huge win.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
  • With another school year having come to a close, Federer’s words should resonate deeply and be shared with the young people who most need to hear them.
    Evan Nierman, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
  • Both sides had walked away when Sibley and a friend abruptly returned and again confronted one of the young men, who had stayed behind recording on his phone.
    Time, 6 Aug. 2023
  • These results are a promising sign for the young field of , which is slow to get off the ground due in large part to the hardware constraints of existing quantum computers.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023

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