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young - use in sentences
Preposition: at
- heart: Cathy is a large individual for a female and is young at heart.
Preposition: as
- month: Babies as young as four months who had seen the whole trajectory of the ball, could anticipate where it would re-emerge.
Modifies a noun
- people: Tue 19th Aug 2003: Majority of young people back lower voting age.
- man: What led a group of young Catholic men to risk their lives for their faith?
- child: Unlike many adults, young children do not have any choice about whether or not they are exposed to tobacco smoke.
- woman: A young woman may belong to the Senior Section from her 14th to her 26th birthday.
- person: Once your young person has applied for a course at the college, they will be invited in for an informal interview.
- girl: Who is the young girl with the feisty feminist views over the picket fence?
Modifying Another Word
- too: For some, like Jeff Buckley or Elliott Smith, you have to die way too young.
- relatively: As he died at a relatively young age, sadly, he only knew his two eldest grandchildren.
- very: He is therefore highly advisable for the very young children.
- mostly: They worked in many other areas like driving busses and taxis, and about 16,000 mostly young women joined the Women's Land Army.
- particularly: There is growing appetite from the public, particularly young people, and business to take action on climate change.
- pretty: His approach was to choose pretty young people and groom them to make them attractive to other teenagers.
Used with adjective complement
- die: She even promised to take care of his two children should he, like his father, die young.
- fledge: COMMON TERN, Common throughout, many with fledged young.
- look: As I'm a singer, it's also important for me to look young.
- stay: Top A suave socialite, ( Dan ), stays young while his portrait ages.
- feel: Makes me feel young actually, which is nice change.
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