How to Use young in a Sentence

young

1 of 2 adjective
  • The season is still young.
  • He looks young for his age.
  • A very nice young man greeted us at the door.
  • He dreamed of being an artist when he was young.
  • The movie isn't suitable for young viewers.
  • Our youngest daughter just started school.
  • He's still too young to buy alcohol legally.
  • Young people today have a lot of opportunities.
  • Fish nurse their young in these roots.
    — Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
  • All the men on the farm were young.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • And in some ways, that keeps me young.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • That was my idea of Björk from a young age.
    — Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • And this is a very young country.
    — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Even younger talent to keep an eye on?
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Is eight kind of young for a sleepover?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 June 2026
  • His wife and young son were also on hand.
    — Molly McCrea, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
    — Priya Kaur, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Children two years old and younger are free.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
  • For many years, young men were handed clear scripts.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Camejo’s youngest is nine months old.
    — Lisa Gutierrez may 1, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • Young people called the shots — in the movie and on the set.
    — Linnea Wicklund, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • There was one young woman from Olathe.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The central trio and their friends are all cast with young stars-to-be.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Rivera’s mother-in-law, who helped with her youngest, died six months ago.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Best for ages 8 and up; younger kids may find the content heavy.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • A lot of young receivers are not blocking like that.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Part of that mindset shift was for her young daughter.
    — Ayren Jackson-Cannady, SELF, 29 May 2026
  • There was a young woman sitting across the aisle.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Schwartz said Jones saw himself in some of those young kids.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • You were thrust into the spotlight at such a young age.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 26 June 2026

young

2 of 2 noun
  • The young of a wolf are called pups.
  • The very young and the elderly are particularly sensitive to the disease.
  • Felony record this young doesn't bode well for their future, so what now?
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Sloth mothers will care for their young for about the first year of their lives.
    — Rhiannon Saegert, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Mothers sneak inside and lay their eggs in the cells a host bee has built for her own young.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2012
  • Some dine on other jellyfish — even their own young when food is scarce.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • In the wild, males will sometimes kill the young of another male and replace them with his own.
    — Paul Nicklen, National Geographic, 13 June 2017
  • Many species, such as bees, collect pollen to feed their developing young.
    — Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Winnie will likely give birth to a single young, which is typical for her species.
    — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Elephants mate in the grasslands and carry their young for nearly two years before birth.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Its six young South Americans will cost the team less than half what the last season.
    — Kevin Baxterstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Frog mothers lay eggs and never see their young grow, while elephants have live births, then stay with their young for more than a decade.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Of course, each of the kids are starting to show off their true personalities, even at this young of an age.
    — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The aquatic scene depicts a 32-foot-tall seahorse teaching skills to his young.
    — Jayne Yutig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The tiny crypt-keeper wasp lays its eggs inside the crypt, and allows its young to grow alongside the gall wasp’s babies.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2025
  • The adult tern flew tirelessly, looking for fish to feed its young, which patiently waited.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • During the annual pupping season, the area is swarmed with mothers who raise their young on the coastline.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Neighboring wasp queens like to visit an unguarded nest, snatch a baby from its cell, and bring it home to carve up and feed to their own young.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2015
  • 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
  • Except that the young of any dairy cow is taken from the mother almost immediately.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 11 May 2022
  • Since those players emerged, there was a bit of a wait for the next young forward to truly establish himself as a superstar.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The bees are named after cuckoo birds, which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, who then feed and protect the intruder to the detriment of their own young.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2018
  • When successful, the male lions will even kill the young of their predecessors to bring the females into heat to rear their own offspring.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Female crocs, and some males, do sometimes respond to the distress cries of their own young, which share some acoustic features with the calls of primate infants.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The female mega den snakes carry their young for three to four months before delivering between eight and 17 babies.
    — Rachel Flynn, People.com, 14 May 2025
  • Mothers usually harbor their young for about three years before giving birth, though in some cases, post-term for these creatures can mean a whole extra year.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Unfortunately, the youngs were only able to complete one of those very important missions.
    — Peggy Truong, Cosmopolitan, 1 Apr. 2016
  • Jay families sometimes remain together long enough for the young of the year to assist in raising the next generation.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Inside India, the long-term consequences of failing to match its young with adequate employment could be grave.
    — Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • Those toxins accumulate in the whales’ blubber, and are also concentrated in mothers’ milk and passed down to their nursing young.
    — Julia O’Malley, New York Times, 19 July 2023

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