YOUTH in a Sentence

Learn YOUTH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
297 example sentences for YOUTH, such as:
1. A lazy youth, a lousy age.
2. An idle youth, a needy age.
3. He is a fine type of the youth.
4. Reckless youth makes rueful age.
5. What youth is used to, age remembers.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of YOUTH
youth
 n.  the time of life between childhood and maturity
 n.  a young person (especially a young man or boy)
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Eady and his assistant were both "down street," and young Denis, who seldom deigned to take their place, was lounging by the stove with a knot of the golden youth of Starkfield.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  That was the year when Gerald O'Hara, twenty-eight years older than she, came into her life--the year, too, when youth and her black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  For a young man cut off without a shilling in early youth, I've done very well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  He is a thoroughly bad character who would take advantage of your youth and innocence to make you conspicuous and publicly disgrace you and your family.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  I hope and pray it was only youth and thoughtlessness that prompted such forward conduct.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  No pang of conscience at loving another woman's husband or reading that woman's mail disturbed her pleasure in her youth and charm and her renewed assurance of Ashley's love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  She was a woman now and youth was gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  For Ashley, spring was back again, that half- forgotten balmy spring of green rustlings and murmurings, a spring of ease and indolence, careless days when the desires of youth were warm in his body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
10  She had set her feet upon that road a spoiled, selfish and untried girl, full of youth, warm of emotion, easily bewildered by life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  Hunger and hard labor, fear and constant strain, the terrors of war and the terrors of Reconstruction had taken away all warmth and youth and softness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  Georgia had taken his youth and his middle years for a crime that was no crime to him, yet he had freely given a leg and an eye to Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
13  My early youth was spent as a gambler on a river boat and I can understand people like that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
14  His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  Only Ashley who shared her memories and her youth, who knew her beginnings and her present could understand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
Example Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1  In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
2  Many of us do stupid things in our youth, but we should have the good grace to admit them.
3  What youth is used to, age remembers.
4  An idle youth, a needy age.
5  A lazy youth, a lousy age.
6  The follies of youth are food for repentance in old age.
7  In youth the hours are golden in mature years they are silver, in old age they are leaden.
8  Reckless youth makes rueful age.
9  Some youth today do not allow any criticism at all.
10  We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
11  The youth continued to gawk at her and did not answer.
12  I spent most of my youth hanging around the bars of Dublin.
13  Wednesday she listened carefully as Attorney General Janet Reno testified in a subcommittee hearing on youth, violence and drugs.
14  Don't drone away the precious years of youth.
15  He is a fine type of the youth.