How to Use whippersnapper in a Sentence

whippersnapper

noun

• And there may be clams around cold seeps or on the Antarctic sea bottom that make Ming look like a whippersnapper.
  — Steven N. Austad, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
• Trains make all these cars look like whippersnappers; fellow Hall member Lionel Trains dates all the way back to 1900.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Nov. 2019
• That whippersnapper, in other words, would look fly af.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 6 Mar. 2018
• In modern-day literature, whippersnappers who wouldn't know a mule from a hole in the ground are killing mules by the caravan.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• In modern-day literature, whippersnappers who wouldn't know a mule from a hole in the ground are killing mules by the caravan.
  — Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2011
• The day is fast approaching when Tiger Woods and Brooks Koepka will be chasing these whippersnappers at majors, not leading the way.
  — Tad Reeve, Twin Cities, 6 July 2019
• The space is now occupied by the flagship of Hackett, a company that is a relative whippersnapper at 37 years old.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Saturday, the Sharks were finished off by an Oilers’ squad of young whippersnappers, many of whom had never been involved in any postseason games.
  — Mark Purdy, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2017
• Wilson was not the only whippersnapper onstage at TED on Wednesday.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2013
• Cook, 32, acknowledges that most young whippersnappers just don’t print out photos as part of their regular routine.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Now stop being such an ungrateful whippersnapper, and call your grandma.
  — Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
• Help impart some old-school championship lessons on his young whippersnapper teammates.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 Mar. 2021
• Brian Switek, one of the junior members of the science-blogging-whippersnapper brigade, has written a detailed look back at the saga of Darwinius, the primate fossil that held Mayor Bloomberg captive at a press conference.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2010
• The makeup artist turned beauty-brand entrepreneur is an undeniable legend — a luminary in a way that a teen TikTok whippersnapper could only hope to be.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 9 Mar. 2022
• A bunch of West Coast whippersnappers go into your site, figure out when your customers are spending money, tell a robot to take additional amounts out regularly and then invest the money someplace else.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 6 May 2016
• There are certainly octogenarians who are physically fit, sharp as a tack, and as competent at work as any whippersnapper.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Oct. 2017
• Would this shirtless whippersnapper rob Timothée of his title?
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2018
• For a relative whippersnapper (he’s 38), Reihan Salam has been writing about the relationship between the Republican Party’s policy agenda and its electoral coalition for a long time.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 1 May 2018
• In many of the most popular clips, these whippersnappers engage in adultlike conversations, amusingly given their babyish voices.
  — Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024